Incolornis
Incolornis was a tiny bird that lived about 90 million years ago, during the time of dinosaurs. It was one of the early birds that could fly, and it lived in what is now Uzbekistan.12
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Incolornis is known only from a few pieces of bone called coracoids, which are part of the shoulder.1
One species, Incolornis martini, was first thought to belong to a different bird group called Enantiornis.1
The larger species, Incolornis martini, was about 220 mm long, while the smaller one, Incolornis silvae, was about 135 mm long.1
Incolornis lived during the Turonian stage, about 93.9 to 89.8 million years ago.2
Scientists are not sure exactly where Incolornis fits in the bird family tree; it might have been an enantiornithine bird.1
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- Scientific name
- Incolornis
- Named by
- Panteleyev 19983
- Group
- Early birds
- Family / clade
- Alexornithidae3
- Classification
- Theropoda > Avialae3
- Age of the rocks
- 94 to 90 million years (Turonian)3
- Rock formations
- Bissekty3
- Countries
- Uzbekistan3
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
- Discovery
- Incolornis was named by A. V. Panteleyev in 1998. The first species, Incolornis silvae, was described from a left coracoid found in Uzbekistan.31
- Still debated
- Scientists still debate whether Incolornis was an enantiornithine bird or belonged to another group of early birds.1
Where the facts come from
- Incolornis (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Incolornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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