Tianyuornis

Tianyu bird

• Tianyu · Chinese · refers to the Tianyu Museum of Nature (Shandong, China), which holds the fossil
• ornis · Greek · bird

The name combines "Tianyu", for the Tianyu Museum of Nature in China, with the Greek "ornis", meaning bird. It is a fossil bird genus named after the institution associated with the specimen. I am not fully certain of the details of the naming, so treat the museum attribution as likely rather than confirmed.

Period

Early Cretaceous

A fossil bird (avialan) from China, so it counts as a dinosaur in the modern phylogenetic sense. The type species is Tianyuornis cheni. Details such as author, year, formation and exact stage are left blank because I am not sure of them.