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Ignotornis ✝

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Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	72313	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=72313

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Ignotornidae : Ignotornis

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
-	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
-	Averostra	Paul 2002
-	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
suborder	Coelurosauria	Huene 1914
-	Maniraptora	Gauthier 1986
-	Paraves	Sereno 1997
class	Aves	Linnaeus 1758
family	Ignotornidae	Lockley et al. 1992
genus	Ignotornis	Mehl 1931

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ignotornis	genus	belongs to Aves	stated without evidence	Kuhn, 1958
Ignotornis	genus	belongs to Theropoda	stated without evidence	Kuhn, 1963
Ignotornis	genus	belongs to Coelurosauria	stated with evidence	Haubold, 1971
Ignotornis	genus	belongs to Ignotornidae	stated without evidence	Lockley et al., 1992
Ignotornis	genus	belongs to Aves	stated without evidence	Calvo, 2007
Ignotornis	genus	belongs to Ignotornidae	stated with evidence	Kim et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

125 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

125 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Theropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Coelurosauria)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. G. Mehl. 1931. Additions to the vertebrate record of the Dakota sandstone. American Journal of Science 21(125):441-452

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ignotornis gajinensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Ignotornis mcconnelli ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ignotornis yangi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1931	Ignotornis Mehl pp. 443-444 fig. 1
1958	Ignotornis Kuhn p. 28
1963	Ignotornis Kuhn p. 108
1971	Ignotornis Haubold p. 73
1992	Ignotornis Lockley et al. pp. 121-123 fig. 1,2
2006	Ignotornis Kim et al. p. 62
2007	Ignotornis Calvo p. 324
2012	Ignotornis Kim et al. p. 34
2016	Ignotornis Buckley et al. p. 261

References

Mehl M. G. (1931) Additions to the vertebrate record of the Dakota sandstone, American Journal of Science 21 125, 441-452

Kuhn O. (1958) , Die Fährten der vorzeitlichen Amphibien und Reptilien [The Tracks of Prehistoric Amphibians and Reptiles], 1-64

Kuhn O. (1963) Pars 101. Ichnia Tetrapodorum, In F. Westphal (ed.), Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Ysel Press, Deventer, Netherlands, 1-176

Haubold H. (1971) , Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie [Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology]. Part 18. Ichnia Amphibiorum et Reptiliorum Fossilium. Gistav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1-124

Lockley M. G., Yang S.Y., et al (1992) The track record of Mesozoic birds: evidence and implications, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 336, 113-134

Kim J. Y., Kim S. H., et al (2006) The oldest record of webbed bird and pterosaur tracks from South Korea (Cretaceous Haman Formation, Changseon and Sinsu Islands): more evidence of high avian diversity in East Asia, Cretaceous Research 27, 56-69

Calvo J. O. (2007) Ichnology, Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles, 314-334

Kim J. Y., Lockley M. G., et al (2012) A paradise of Mesozoic birds: the world's richest and most diverse Cretaceous bird track assemblage from the Early Cretaceous Haman Formation of the Gajin Tracksite, Jinju, Korea, Ichnos 19, 28-42 doi:10.1080/10420940.2012.660414

Buckley L. G., McCrea R. T., et al (2016) Analyzing and resolving Cretaceous avian ichnotaxonomy using multivariate statistical analyses: approaches and results, Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps, 258-308

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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