Vorona
| Vorona Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Avialae |
| Clade: | Ornithothoraces |
| Genus: | †Vorona Forster et al., 1996 |
| Species: | †V. berivotrensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Vorona berivotrensis Forster et al., 1996 | |
Vorona (/ˈvʊəruːnə/ VOOR-oo-nə; lit. 'bird') is an extinct genus of bird known from outcrops of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian age) Maevarano Formation near the village of Berivotra in Mahajanga Province, Madagascar. The genus contains a single species, Vorona berivotrensis, known from scattered hindlimb remains, possibly from a single individual (UA 8651 and FMNH PA715). The genus name is a Malagasy word for "bird", and the specific name, berivotrensis, references the village near the type locality.[1]
The phylogenetic affinity of Vorona is hard to determine due to the fragmentary nature of the remains, mainly because the fossil shows a mix of basal avian features as well as some that seem very derived. Vorona might be a primitive ornithuromorph. Some studies have recovered it as an enantiornithean.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Forster, Catherine A.; Chiappe, Luis M.; Krause, David W.; Sampson, Scott D. (August 1996). "The first Cretaceous bird from Madagascar". Nature. 382 (6591): 532–534. Bibcode:1996Natur.382..532F. doi:10.1038/382532a0. S2CID 4364184.
- ↑ Pei, Rui; Pittman, Michael; Goloboff, Pablo A.; Dececchi, T. Alexander; Habib, Michael B.; Kaye, Thomas G.; Larsson, Hans C.E.; Norell, Mark A.; Brusatte, Stephen L.; Xu, Xing (August 2020). "Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds". Current Biology. 30 (20): 4033–4046.e8. Bibcode:2020CBio...30E4033P. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.105. hdl:11336/143103. PMID 32763170.
- ↑ Hartman, Scott; Mortimer, Mickey; Wahl, William R.; Lomax, Dean R.; Lippincott, Jessica; Lovelace, David M. (10 July 2019). "A new paravian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America supports a late acquisition of avian flight". PeerJ. 7 e7247. doi:10.7717/peerj.7247. PMC 6626525. PMID 31333906.
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