Ilerdopteryx Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
Genus: | †Ilerdopteryx Lacasa-Ruiz, 1985 |
Species: | †I. viai
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Binomial name | |
†Ilerdopteryx viai Lacasa-Ruiz, 1985
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Ilerdopteryx is an extinct genus of birds, perhaps an enantiornithine, from the Lower Cretaceous La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation lithographic limestone of Spain. The type species, I. viai,[1] is known only from a collection of isolated contour feathers.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ A. Lacasa Ruiz. (1985). Nota sobre las plumas fósiles del yacimiento eocretácico de “La Pedrera-La Cabrua” en la Sierra del Montsec (prov. Lleida, España) Ilerdopteryx viai n. g. n. sp. Illerda 46:227-237
- ^ Kellner, A. (2002). "A review of avian Mesozoic fossil feathers." pp. 389–404. in Chiappe and Witmer, (eds.). Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. Berkeley: University of California Press.