Enaliornis

Enaliornis
Temporal range: 100.5 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Avialae
Clade: Hesperornithes
Genus: Enaliornis
Seeley, 1876
Type species
Enaliornis barretti
Seeley, 1876[1]
Species
  • Enaliornis barretti Seeley, 1876
  • Enaliornis sedgwicki Seeley, 1876
  • Enaliornis seeleyi Galton & Martin, 2002

Enaliornis is a genus of hesperornithine which lived during the late Albian to the early Cenomanian, making them the oldest known hesperornithines.[2] Fossils have been found near Cambridge, England. Due to its lack of certain[clarification needed] hesperornithid apomorphies, they were much more "conventional" birds and were initially held to be Gaviiformes (loons/divers).[3]

  1. ^ Brands, S. (2012)
  2. ^ Bell, A.; Chaippe, L.M. (2022). Buffetaut, E.; Angst, D. (eds.). "The Hesperornithiformes: A Review of the Diversity, Distribution, and Ecology of the Earliest Diving Birds". Diversity. 14 (4). 267. doi:10.3390/d14040267.
  3. ^ Harrison & Walker (1973)