Neimengornis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Order: | †Jeholornithiformes |
Genus: | †Neimengornis Wang et al., 2021 |
Species: | †N. rectusmim
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Binomial name | |
†Neimengornis rectusmim Wang et al., 2021
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Neimengornis (meaning "Inner Mongolia bird") is an extinct genus of jeholornithiform avialan dinosaurs that lived in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous. It contains one species, N. rectusmim, which is known from a single specimen, holotype IMMNH-PV00122, discovered in the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning.[1]