Fossil specimen of Longipteryx chaoyangensis, Hong Kong Science Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
Saurischia
Clade:
Theropoda
Clade:
Avialae
Clade:
†Enantiornithes
Family:
†Longipterygidae Zhang et al., 2001
Type species
†Longipteryx chaoyangensis
Zhang et al., 2001
Genera
†Boluochia
†Camptodontornis[1]
†Evgenavis[2]
†Longipteryx
†Longirostravis
†Rapaxavis
†Shanweiniao
†Shengjingornis
Synonyms
Boluochidae Zhou & Zhang, 2006
Longipterygithidae Zhou & Zhang, 2006
Longirostravisidae Zhou & Zhang, 2006
Longipterygidae is a family of early enantiornithean avialans from the Early Cretaceous epoch of China. All known specimens come from the Jiufotang Formation and Yixian Formation, dating to the early Aptian age, 125-120 million years ago.[3]
^Li Li; En-pu Gong; Li-dong Zhang; Ya-jun Yang & Lian-hai Hou (2010). "A new enantiornithine bird (aves) from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning, China". Acta Palaeontologica Sinica. 49 (4): 524–531.
^Hartman, Scott; Mortimer, Mickey; Wahl, William R.; Lomax, Dean R.; Lippincott, Jessica; Lovelace, David M. (2019). "A new paravian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America supports a late acquisition of avian flight". PeerJ. 7: e7247. doi:10.7717/peerj.7247. PMC 6626525. PMID 31333906.
^Morschhauser, E. M.; Varricchio, D.J.; Gao, C.; Liu, J.; Wang, Z.; Cheng, X. & Meng, Q. (2009). "Anatomy of the Early Cretaceous bird Rapaxavis pani, a new species from Liaoning Province, China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (2): 545–554. doi:10.1671/039.029.0210. S2CID 84643293.
Longipterygidae is a family of early enantiornithean avialans from the Early Cretaceous epoch of China. All known specimens come from the Jiufotang Formation...
that they were actually chalcedony crystals, and not gastroliths. Longipterygidae is the most extensively studied family in terms of diet due to their...
Enantiornithes. A distinct order (Longipterygiformes) and family (Longipterygidae) has been proposed for it. Given that neither its exact relationships...
closely related to Longipteryx and could be assigned to the family Longipterygidae. While it was originally described as having a hooked, raptorial beak...
which together form a clade of long-beaked enantiornithean birds, the Longipterygidae. The genus name Shanweiniao (simplified Chinese: 扇尾鸟; traditional Chinese:...
Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation China An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Longipterygidae Zhang, Zhou, Hou et Gu, 2000, this is the type species of the new genus...
in a relatively basal position within the Enantiornithes, outside Longipterygidae. This indicates that these basal forms existed for much longer than...
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