Gobipteryx

Gobipteryx
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Eggs of Gobipteryx minuta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Avialae
Clade: Enantiornithes
Family: Gobipterygidae
Genus: Gobipteryx
Elżanowski, 1974
Species:
G. minuta
Binomial name
Gobipteryx minuta
Elżanowski, 1974
Synonyms

Gobipteryx (from Gobi [referring to the Gobi Desert where it was first discovered], and Greek pteryx "wing") is a genus of prehistoric bird from the Campanian Age of the Late Cretaceous Period.[1] It is not known to have any direct descendants.[1] Like the rest of the enantiornithes clade, Gobipteryx is thought to have gone extinct near the end of the Cretaceous.[2]

  1. ^ a b Elżanowski, A. (1974): "Preliminary note on the Palaeognthous bird from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia" Palaeontologia Polonica 30:103-109, plates 32-33.
  2. ^ Padian, K. (2004). "Basal Avialae". chptr 11, in Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P. and Osmólska, H. (eds.): The Dinosauria 2nd Edition. University of California Press, Berkeley ISBN 978-0-520-25408-4.

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