Judinornis

Yudin's bird

• Judin · Russian (surname, transliterated) · K. A. Yudin, Russian ornithologist
• ornis · Greek · bird

Judinornis combines a personal name with the Greek word for "bird". It honours the Russian ornithologist K. A. Yudin (spelled "Judin" in Latin transliteration). The name means roughly "Yudin's bird". It was given to a fossil bird from Mongolia.

Named by

Nessov and Borkin

Year named

1983

Period

Late Cretaceous

Found in

Nogon-Tsav, Mongolia

Judinornis (type species J. nogontsavensis) is a fossil bird, usually regarded as a hesperornithiform (a flightless diving bird relative of Hesperornis). Birds are living dinosaurs in the cladistic sense, but it is not a non-avian dinosaur. The exact geologic stage is uncertain and is left blank here.