Ilerdopteryx

Extinct genus of birds

Ilerdopteryx
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
140–125 Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Avialae
Clade: Enantiornithes
Genus: Ilerdopteryx
Lacasa-Ruiz, 1985
Species:
I. viai
Binomial name
Ilerdopteryx viai
Lacasa-Ruiz, 1985

Ilerdopteryx is an extinct genus of birds, perhaps an enantiornithine, from the Lower Cretaceous La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation lithographic limestone of Spain. The type species, I. viai,[1] is known only from a collection of isolated contour feathers.[2]

References

  1. ^ A. Lacasa Ruiz. (1985). Nota sobre las plumas fósiles del yacimiento eocretácico de “La Pedrera-La Cabrua” en la Sierra del Montsec (prov. Lleida, España) Ilerdopteryx viai n. g. n. sp. Illerda 46:227-237
  2. ^ Kellner, A. (2002). "A review of avian Mesozoic fossil feathers." pp. 389–404. in Chiappe and Witmer, (eds.). Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Ilerdopteryx viai


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