Palintropus retusus
By José Carlos Cortés on @quetzalcuetzpalin-art
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Name: Palintropus retusus
Name Meaning: Backwards bend
First Described: 1970
Described By: Brodkorb
Classification: Dinosauria, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Averaptora, Avialae, Euavialae, Avebrevicauda, Pygostylia, Ornithothoraces, Euornithes, Ornithuromorpha, Ornithurae
Palintropus is a genus of bird possibly closely related to Apsaravis, known from the Lance Formation of Wyoming. It lived about 69 to 66 million years ago, in the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous. It is known from only a fragment of a bone, which means its hard to say much about it, though it was probably a land-dwelling bird like Apsaravis.
Sources:
http://www.paleofile.com/Dinosaurs/Aves/Palintropus.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palintropus
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