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Jianchangornis

genus of birds (fossil)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ6191480 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jianchangornis a genus of basal ornithuromorph dinosaurs. Fossils were recovered from the Jiufotang Formation at Liaoning, China.

Description

A specimen IVPP-V16708 includes skull, partial skeleton and feathers. These remains indicate a subadult individual with a length of 33 cm (13 in), hip height of 26 cm (10 in), and weight of 1.2 kg (2.6 lb).

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“Jianchangornis” enters the record as genus of birds (fossil). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jianchangornis, genus and birds can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 55-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jianchangornis, genus and birds.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6191480. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jianchangornis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.