Piscivorenantiornis

fish-eating opposite bird

• piscis · Latin · fish
• vorare · Latin · to devour, to eat
• enantios · Greek · opposite
• ornis · Greek · bird

The name combines the Latin words for "fish" and "devour" with Enantiornis, the name of the group's namesake bird, meaning "opposite bird". It refers to the fish-eating habits inferred for this early bird. The "opposite" part refers to the reversed way the shoulder bones fit together in enantiornithine birds compared with modern birds.

Named by

Wang and Zhou

Year named

2017

Period

Early Cretaceous

Found in

Huajiying Formation, Hebei Province, China

An enantiornithine bird (the type species is P. inusitatus). Birds are living avian dinosaurs, so it counts as a dinosaur in the modern sense. The stage dating is approximate. Details such as the exact authorship and the diet inference are given from memory, so please check them.