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Kuszholia

Nessov, 1992

From Kazakh qus joly (Milky Way, literally "bird road"); meaning "Milky Way bird"

93.9–89.8 million years ago Turonian, Late Cretaceous
Late Cretaceous stages

Kuszholia is the name given to a genus of primitive birds or bird-like dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous.

Species

Kuszholia mengi Nessov, 1992

Type species

Holotype
ZIN PO 4602 , Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Material
Posterior fragment of synsacrum
Horizon
Bissekty Formation, Turonian, Late Cretaceous , 93.9–89.8 million years ago
Locality
CBI-52, Dzharakuduk, Navoiy, Uzbekistan

References

  1. Nessov, L. A. (1992). Record of the localities of Mesozoic and Paleogene with avian remains in the USSR, and the description of new findings. Russian Journal of Ornithology 1: 7-50.

    Erects Kuszholia mengi on a synsacrum fragment from the Bissekty Formation, Uzbekistan.

    nessov1992a
  2. Zelenkov, N. V.; Averianov, A. O. (2011). Synsacrum of a primitive bird from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. Paleontological Journal 45(3): 314-319. Pleiades Publishing Ltd. doi:10.1134/s0031030111030166 zelenkov2011a
  3. Nessov, L. A. (1997). Nemorskie pozvonochnye melovogo perioda Severnoi Yevrazii [Cretaceous nonmarine vertebrates of northern Eurasia]. Institute for Scientific Research on the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 1-218.

    Lists Kuszholia mengi, with a query, in Patagopterygiformes as the family Kuszholiidae, and corrects the holotype number.

    nessov1997a
  4. Weishampel, D. B.; Dodson, P.; Osmólska, H. (eds.) (2004). The Dinosauria, Second Edition. University of California Press, Berkeley.

    Lists Kuszholia mengi in its table of Avialae under Ornithothoraces, outside Enantiornithes.

    weishampel2004a