Tingmiatornis Temporal range: Turonian,
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Photograph (left) and CT scans of the holotype humerus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Genus: | †Tingmiatornis Bono et al., 2016 |
Species: | †T. arctica
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Binomial name | |
†Tingmiatornis arctica Bono et al., 2016
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Tingmiatornis (meaning "bird that flies") is a genus of flighted and possibly diving ornithurine dinosaur from the High Arctic of Canada. The genus contains a single species, T. arctica, described in 2016, which lived during the Turonian epoch of the Cretaceous.[1]