Named By: | Zhou & Zhang in 2001 |
Time Period: | Early Cretaceous, 125-120 Ma |
Location: | China, Liaoning Province |
Size: | Estimated 30 centimetres long |
Diet: | unavailable |
Fossil(s): | 3 specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Aves | Yanornithiformes | Songlingornithidae | |
Also known as: | | Archaeovolans repatriatus | |
Yanornis (Chinese: Yan Niao ) is an extinct genus of fish-eating Early Cretaceous birds. Two species have been described, both from Liaoning province, China: Yanornis martini, based on several fossils found in the 120-million-year-old Jiufotang Formation at Chaoyang, and Yanornis guozhangi, from the 124-million-year-old Yixian Formation.