Gretcheniao
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Extinct genus of enantiornithean
| Gretcheniao | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Avialae |
| Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
| Genus: | †Gretcheniao |
| Species: | †G. sinensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Gretcheniao sinensis Chiappe et. al., 2019
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Gretcheniao is an extinct genus of enantiornithean that lived during the Early Cretaceous epoch.
Distribution
[edit ]Gretcheniao sinensis is known from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ Chiappe, Luis María; Qingjin, Meng; Serrano, Francisco; Sigurdsen, Trond; Min, Wang; Bell, Alyssa; Di, Liu (25 October 2019). "New Bohaiornis-like bird from the Early Cretaceous of China: enantiornithine interrelationships and flight performance". PeerJ . 7: e7846. doi:10.7717/peerj.7846 . ISSN 2167-8359. PMID 31667014 . Retrieved 16 February 2025.