Updated my Sinornis santensis reconstruction

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Updated my Sinornis santensis reconstruction
Reconstruction of extinct paravian dinosaur, Sinornis santensis (an Early Cretaceous enantiornithe bird). Art by Gabriel U.
Reconstruction of Sinornis santensis, by McBlackneck.
Sinornis santensis, done in photoshop.
Sinornis santensis
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinornis
Name: Sinornis santensis
Name Meaning: China Bird
First Described: 1992
Described By: Sereno & Rao
Classification: Dinosauria, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Averaptora, Avialae, Euavialae, Avebrevicauda, Pygostylia, Ornithothoraces, Enantiornithes, Cathayornithiformes
Yeah, 1992 was a crap year for non-avialaen dinosaur discoveries... and avialaen dinosaur discoveries. I gotta scrape at the barrel for this. Still, Sinornis is a pretty cool dinosaur, all things considered. It lived about 135 million years ago, in the Valanginian age of the Early Cretaceous. It was found in the Jiufotang Formation at Liaoning, People’s Republic of China. It was about the size of a sparrow, and it was a transitional form between the very primitive early bird Archaeopteryx and modern forms. It lent much insight into the evolution of flight in modern birds, since Archaeopteryx did not have many of the features of modern birds with regards to flight and perching. It, like many early birds, had a mouth fully of teeth; most of its advanced characteristics were related to flight and perching. Based on its breastbone and shoulder structures, it was capable of flight similar to modern birds (and had the muscles necessary for it;) it had modified wrist bones that would allow the wrist to bend sharply back to tuck the wings during flight or rest. It had reduced claws, and small hands with a steady middle finger to allow for flight feather anchorage. It had separate finger bones, well adapted for flight, which in combination with its small form made it easier to fly. It was also capable of perching and climbing. It lived in a primarily arboreal habitat, and probably inhabited an ecological niche similar to sparrows.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinornis
Shout out goes to when-we-were-wild!
The Chinese bird, Sinornis (1992)
Phylum : Chordata Class : Aves Order : Enantiornithes Infraorder : Euenantiornithes Genus : Sinornis Species : S. santensis
Early Cretaceous (120 Ma)
15 cm long (size)
Jiufotang formation, China (map)
Paul Sereno et al. considered a similar prehistoric bird species from the same formation, Cathayornis, to be a junior synonym of Sinornis. They interpreted the anatomies of the two as very similar and sharing key autapomorphies of the pygostyle.
However, in 2001, Zhou and Hou continued to distinguish Cathayornis from Sinornis by the former's larger size, a shorter, straighter, finger number I, with a slightly longer claw (ungual), the absence of an atitrochanter, and other features. A paper describing a second species of Cathayornis in 2008 by Li et al. also considered the genera to be distinct.
The first thorough review of Sinornis and Cathayornis was published by Jingmai O'Connor and Gareth Dyke in 2010. O'Connor and Dyke concluded that despite the 2001 paper by Sereno and colleagues, the two birds were not synonyms and in fact differ in several clear ways, including different proportions in the wing claws and digits, differences in the pelvis, and size of the pygostyle.