About: Enantiornis   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Enantiornis is an extinct genus of predatory enantiornithine bird. The type and only currently accepted species E. leali is from Late Cretaceous rocks at El Brete, Argentina. It was among the largest enantiornithine discovered to date, with a length of around one meter (excluding tail)[1] and its ecological niche resembled that of a mid-sized vulture or eagle.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Enantiornis
rdfs:comment
  • Enantiornis is an extinct genus of predatory enantiornithine bird. The type and only currently accepted species E. leali is from Late Cretaceous rocks at El Brete, Argentina. It was among the largest enantiornithine discovered to date, with a length of around one meter (excluding tail)[1] and its ecological niche resembled that of a mid-sized vulture or eagle.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:fossil/prop...iPageUsesTemplate
Name
  • Enantiornis
Caption
  • A pair of Enantiornis.
fossil range
imagewidth
  • 260(xsd:integer)
Species
  • * E. leali
Genus
  • Enantiornis
Class
Subclass
Family
  • Enantiornithidae
Order
Superorder
abstract
  • Enantiornis is an extinct genus of predatory enantiornithine bird. The type and only currently accepted species E. leali is from Late Cretaceous rocks at El Brete, Argentina. It was among the largest enantiornithine discovered to date, with a length of around one meter (excluding tail)[1] and its ecological niche resembled that of a mid-sized vulture or eagle. E. leali was possibly fairly closely related to Avisaurus, another genus of carnivorous enantiornithines, though its exact relationship is unclear. It is placed in a family of its own (Enantiornithidae), though most researchers consider this premature. Other species from Asia that were previously placed in this genus are now split off. The former Enantiornis martini is now placed in Incolornis, while the former Enantiornis walkeri is now tentatively assigned to Explorornis. The reasons for this are that these birds were described when the diversity of enantiornithine birds was underestimated.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software