Parabohaiornis

near Bohaiornis ("beside the Bohai bird")

• para · Greek · near, beside
• Bohai · Place name (Chinese) · Bohai Sea region of northeastern China
• ornis · Greek · bird

The name combines the Greek "para" (near, beside) with Bohaiornis, an earlier-named enantiornithine bird. It signals that the animal is close to Bohaiornis. Bohaiornis itself means "Bohai bird", after the Bohai Sea region of northeastern China.

Named by

Wang et al.

Year named

2014

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Aptian

Found in

Jiufotang Formation, Liaoning Province, China

An enantiornithine bird in the family Bohaiornithidae. The type species is Parabohaiornis martini. Birds are avian dinosaurs, so it counts as a dinosaur in the broad sense. The stage and formation come from memory, so check them against the original description.