Kingdom Animalia Family †Avisauridae Rank Species | Clade †Enantiornithes Phylum Chordata | |
Genus †Mystiornis
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Mystiornis is an extinct genus of bird which existed in what is now western Siberia, Russia during the early Cretaceous period (Barremian/Aptian age). It is known from an isolated metatarsus found in the Shestakovo-1 locality of southern Western Siberia. It was named by Evgeny N. Kurochkin, Nikita V. Zelenkov, Alexandr O. Averianov and Sergei V. Leshchinskiy in 2011, and the type species is Mystiornis cyrili. While originally described as a very primitive bird only distantly related to well-known groups, it is more likely to be an enantiornithine, specifically an avisaurid.
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