Intiornis
| Intiornis Temporal range: Campanian
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| The holotype partial hind limb of Intiornis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Avialae |
| Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
| Family: | †Avisauridae |
| Genus: | †Intiornis Novas et al. 2010 |
| Species: | †I. inexpectatus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Intiornis inexpectatus Novas et al. 2010
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Intiornis (meaning "Inti bird") is an extinct genus of avisaurid enantiornithean birds which existed in what is now North-West Argentina during the late Cretaceous period (Campanian age).[1]
Description[]
The genus is known from a partial hind limb found in beds of the Upper Cretaceous . It was named by Fernando Emilio Novas, Federico Lisandro Agnolín and Carlos Agustín Scanferla in 2010, and the type species is Intiornis inexpectatus. Intiornis was the size of a sparrow, thus representing the smallest enantiornithes known from South America. Its closest relative was Soroavisaurus from the Lecho Formation (Maastrichtian age) of northwestern Argentina.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Fernando Emilio Novas, Federico Lisandro Agnolín and Carlos Agustín Scanferla (2010). "New enantiornithine bird (Aves, Ornithothoraces) from the Late Cretaceous of NW Argentina". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 9 (8): 499–503. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2010.09.005.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
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Categories:
- Avisaurids
- Campanian life
- Cretaceous birds of South America
- Late Cretaceous animals of South America
- Cretaceous Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Fossil taxa described in 2010
- Prehistoric bird stubs