Hongshanornis

Hongshan bird

• Hongshan · Chinese · red mountain (the Hongshan culture region of northeastern China)
• ornis · Greek · bird

The name combines "Hongshan", Chinese for "red mountain" and the name of the Neolithic Hongshan culture of the region where the fossil was found, with the Greek "ornis", meaning "bird". It therefore means "bird of Hongshan". The type species is Hongshanornis longicresta.

Named by

Zhou and Zhang

Year named

2005

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Aptian

Found in

Yixian Formation, northeastern China

A small, early beaked bird (an ornithuromorph, type of family Hongshanornithidae). It is an avian dinosaur, not a non-avian dinosaur. The exact stage and locality details are given approximately.