Piscivoravis

fish-devouring bird

• piscis · Latin · fish
• vorare · Latin · to devour
• avis · Latin · bird

The name combines Latin words meaning "fish", "to devour" and "bird". It was chosen because the type specimen preserves fish remains in its body, which suggests it ate fish. The type species is Piscivoravis lii.

Named by

Zhou, Zhou and O'Connor

Year named

2014

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Aptian

Found in

Jiufotang Formation, Liaoning Province, China

Piscivoravis is an early ornithuromorph bird from the Jehol Biota. Birds are avian dinosaurs, so it counts as a dinosaur in the cladistic sense, though it is not a non-avian dinosaur. The authorship, formation and stage are given from memory and should be checked against the original description.