Songlingornithidae (Redirected from Songlingornithiformes)

Songlingornithids
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 125–120 Ma
Holotype of Yixianornis grabaui, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Avialae
Clade: Yanornithiformes
Family: Songlingornithidae
Hou, 1997
Type species
Songlingornis linghensis
Hou, 1997
Genera
Synonyms
  • Yanornithidae? Zhou & Zhang, 2001
  • Aberratiodontuidae? Gong, Hou & Wang, 2004
  • Yixianornithidae? Zhang & Zhou, 2006

Songlingornithidae is a family of basal euornitheans from the Early Cretaceous of China. All known specimens come from the Jiufotang Formation and the Yixian Formation, dating to the early Barremian and Aptian ages, 125–120 million years ago.

The family Songlingornithidae was first named by Hou in 1997 to contain the type genus, Songlingornis. Clarke et al. (2006) was the first to find a close relationship between Songlingornis and the "yanornithids".

The name was originally coined to reflect a close relationship between the two supposedly similar (but poorly preserved) genera Songlingornis and Chaoyangia. However, subsequent studies found that Chaoyangia was probably not closely related to Songlingornis. Instead, Songlingornis was found to be closely related to another group which had been given the name Yanornithidae—the name Songlingornithidae, having been named first, took precedence. Some later studies have also placed the hongshanornithids in this group. At least one study has found the Late Cretaceous Mongolian avialan Hollanda to be a member of the group as well.

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Mayr (2017) showing the relationships between Songlingornithidae and other ornithuromorphs:

Ornithuromorpha

Archaeorhynchus

Vorona

Schizooura

Hongshanornithidae

Jianchangornis

Songlingornithidae

Songlingornis

Yixianornis

Piscivoravis

Yanornis

Gansus

Apsaravis

Hesperornithes

Ichthyornis

Neornithes (modern birds)

A 2020 study by Wang et al. failed to recover a monophyletic Songlingornithidae, instead finding Yanornis to form a clade with the newly described genera Abitusavis and Similiyanornis, for which the name Yanornithidae was used:

Ornithuromorpha

Archaeorhynchus

Jianchangornis

Bellulornis

Schizoouridae

Hongshanornithidae

Songlingornis

Yanornithidae

Abitusavis

Similiyanornis

Yanornis

Piscivoravis

Yixianornis

Apsaravis

Patagopteryx

Vorona

Iteravis

Gansus

Ornithurae



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