Gurilynia
| Gurilynia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Avialae |
| Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
| Genus: | †Gurilynia Kurochkin, 1999 |
| Species: | †G. nessovi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Gurilynia nessovi Kurochkin, 1999
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Gurilynia is a
enantiornithine birds.[1] One species is known, G. nessovi. It lived during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous period, between 70 and 66 mya.[2] Gurilynia is known from fragmentary fossils found at the Gurilyn Tsav locality of the Nemegt Formation in south Gobi, Mongolia
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Description
The fossil material includes three partial bones. The
enantiornithine from the Early Cretaceous is Pengornis, with a humeral head width of 17 mm (0.67 in).[4]
Kurochkin also mentions that "The additional distal portions of the ulna, radius, and carpometacarpus from the same beds also very probably belong to the Enantiornithes." This passage may describe PIN 4499-1, which was later assigned to Teviornis. Kurochkin also adds that G. nessovi demonstrates that there were large Enantiornithids in Central Asia as well as the Americas at the end of the Cretaceous.[1]
References
- ^ a b Kurochkin, E.N. (1999) "A new large enantiornithid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia." In I. Darevskii and A. Averianov (editors), "Materials on the History of Fauna of Eurasia. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg" 277: 132–147. QL1 .A4253 v.277 1999[in Russian]
- ^ Clarke, Julia A., Norell, Mark A. (2004) "New Avialan Remains and a Review of the Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia" "American Museum Novitates" Number 3447, 12pp. June 2, 2004
- ^ ISBN 9780691190594. Retrieved 29 August 2022.)
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