Praeornis sharovi

Praeornis is an extinct genus of early avialan, possibly an enantiornithine, from the Late Jurassic Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan. Only the type species is known, which is P. sharovi.

Praeornis sharovi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PraeornisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At most 6.7 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 154.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Praeornis sharovi on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Karabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°E

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The named rock units Praeornis sharovi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Praeornis sharovi and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Praeornis sharovi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Praeornis sharovi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Praeornis sharovi

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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Praeornis sharovi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPraeornis through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rautian 1978