Teviornis

Teviornis
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 70 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Family: Presbyornithidae
Genus: Teviornis
Kurochkin, Dyke & Karhu, 2002
Species:
T. gobiensis
Binomial name
Teviornis gobiensis
Kurochkin, Dyke & Karhu, 2002

Teviornis is an extinct genus of presbyornithid which lived during the Maastrichtian stage, around 70 million years ago. One species has been described, T. gobiensis. It is the oldest known neognath and its fossils are collected from the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia.[1]

  1. ^ Marjanović, D. (2021). "The Making of Calibration Sausage Exemplified by Recalibrating the Transcriptomic Timetree of Jawed Vertebrates". Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 521693. doi:10.3389/fgene.2021.521693. PMC 8149952. PMID 34054911.