Chupkaornis
| Chupkaornis Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Avialae |
| Clade: | †Hesperornithes |
| Genus: | †Chupkaornis Tanaka et al., 2017 |
| Type species | |
| †Chupkaornis keraorum Tanaka et al., 2017
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Chupkaornis (meaning "eastern bird"[1]) is a genus of prehistoric flightless birds from the Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian) Kashima Formation of Hokkaido, Japan.
Description
[edit]Diagnostic traits of Chupkaornis include a finger-like projected tibiofibular crest of femur, deep, emarginated lateral excavation with a sharply defined edge of the ventral margin of the thoracic vertebrae, and the heterocoelous articular surface of the thoracic vertebrae.[2]
Phylogeny
[edit]Chupkaornis is recovered by Tanaka et al. (2017) as more derived than the Cenomanian-age form Pasquiaornis, but less advanced than Brodavis and Baptornis.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "太古のバードウォッチング ～石になった鳥を探る～" (PDF). 兵庫県立人と自然の博物館 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-12-18.
- ^ a b Tomonori Tanaka, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Ken'ichi Kurihara, Anthony R. Fiorillo and Manabu Kano. 2017. The Oldest Asian Hesperornithiform from the Upper Cretaceous of Japan, and the Phylogenetic Reassessment of Hesperornithiformes. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1341960
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