Evgenavis

Evgeny's bird

• Evgen- · Russian (personal name) · after Evgeny Kurochkin
• avis · Latin · bird

The name combines a form of the given name Evgeny with the Latin word for "bird". It honours the Russian palaeo-ornithologist Evgeny Kurochkin. The type species is Evgenavis nobilis.

Named by

O'Connor, Averianov and Zelenkov

Year named

2014

Period

Early Cretaceous

Found in

Ilek Formation, Russia (Siberia)

Evgenavis is an early bird, an enantiornithine. Birds are avian dinosaurs, so it counts as a dinosaur in the broad sense. I am less sure of the exact locality and the stage, so I left the stage fields blank.