Linyiornis

Linyi bird

• Linyi · Chinese (place name) · Linyi, the city in Shandong Province, China, near where the fossil was found
• ornis · Greek · bird

The name combines Linyi, the area in Shandong Province, China, where the fossil was found, with the Greek "ornis", meaning "bird". It literally means "Linyi bird". The type species is Linyiornis amoena.

Named by

Wang et al.

Year named

2016

Found in

Linyi, Shandong Province, China

Linyiornis is a fossil bird (an ornithuromorph avialan). Birds are technically living dinosaurs, so it is a dinosaur in the cladistic sense, though not a "non-avian" dinosaur. I am not sure of the exact age or the year, so I have left the geologic period and stages blank.