Zhouornis

Zhou's bird

• Zhou · Chinese (personal name) · honorific surname of a person, probably a Chinese researcher
• ornis · Greek · bird

The name combines "Zhou", a surname used to honour a person, with the Greek "ornis", meaning bird. It names a fossil bird from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern China. The exact person honoured is not something I can confirm.

Named by

Zhang et al.

Year named

2013

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Aptian

Found in

Jiufotang Formation, Liaoning Province, China

An enantiornithine bird, a member of the extinct Enantiornithes. These are avialan (bird-line) dinosaurs, so it counts as a dinosaur in the broad sense but is not a non-avian dinosaur. The type species is Zhouornis hani. The stage and author details are from memory and should be checked against the original description.