Ilerdopteryx
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| Ilerdopteryx Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Ornithothoraces |
| Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
| Genus: | †Ilerdopteryx Lacasa-Ruiz, 1985 |
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† I. viai
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| Ilerdopteryx viai Lacasa-Ruiz, 1985
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Ilerdopteryx is an extinct genus of birds, perhaps an enantiornithine, from the Lower Cretaceous La Pedrera de Rubies lithographic limestone of Spain. The type species, I. viai, is known only from a collection of isolated contour feathers.[1]
References
- ↑ 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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