Gobipipus

Gobipipus
Temporal range: Middle Campanian, 80–76 Ma
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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: †Gobipipus
Kurochkin, Chatterjee, & Mikhailov, 2013
Type species
†Gobipipus reshetovi
Kurochkin, Chatterjee, & Mikhailov, 2013

Gobipipus ("Gobi Desert chick") is a genus of enantiornithine bird. It lived during the middle Campanian stage of the Upper Cretaceous around 80 to 76 million years ago in what is now Mongolia. It is known from an incomplete embryonic individual that was found during a joint Russian-Mongolian Expedition to the Barun Goyot Formation of the Gobi Desert.[1]

References

  1. ^ Kurochkin, E. N.; Chatterjee, S.; Mikhailov, K. E. (2013-12-01). "An embryonic enantiornithine bird and associated eggs from the cretaceous of Mongolia". Paleontological Journal. 47 (11): 1252–1269. Bibcode:2013PalJ...47.1252K. doi:10.1134/S0031030113110087. ISSN 1555-6174.


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