Name - Alexornithidae Brodkorb 1976

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1249201 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Zhyraornithidae Nessov 1984

• Gobipterygidae Elzanowski 1974

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

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Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Original Description Reference

• Discovery of a Cretaceous bird, apparently ancestral to the orders Coraciiformes and Piciformes (Aves: Carinatae). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, No. 27 1976: 67-73. [Zoological Record Volume 113]

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Recent Publications

• A new enantiornithid of the Mongolian Late Cretaceous, and a general appraisal of the infraclass Enantiornithes (Aves).
• Discovery of a Cretaceous bird, apparently ancestral to the orders Coraciiformes and Piciformes (Aves: Carinatae).

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