Intiornis

Intiornis; Temporal range: Campanian; ~75 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	The holotype partial hind limb of Intiornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	†Enantiornithes
Family:	†Avisauridae
Genus:	†Intiornis; Novas et al. 2010
Species:	†I. inexpectatus
Binomial name
	†Intiornis inexpectatus; Novas et al. 2010

Intiornis (meaning "Inti bird") is an extinct genus of avisaurid enantiornithean birds which existed in what is now North-West Argentina during the late Cretaceous period (Campanian age).[1]

Description

The genus is known from a partial hind limb found in beds of the Upper Cretaceous Las Curtiembres Formation. It was named by Fernando Emilio Novas, Federico Lisandro Agnolín and Carlos Agustín Scanferla in 2010, and the type species is Intiornis inexpectatus. Intiornis was the size of a sparrow, thus representing the smallest enantiornithes known from South America. Its closest relative was Soroavisaurus from the Lecho Formation (Maastrichtian age) of northwestern Argentina.[1]

References

Fernando Emilio Novas, Federico Lisandro Agnolín and Carlos Agustín Scanferla (2010). "New enantiornithine bird (Aves, Ornithothoraces) from the Late Cretaceous of NW Argentina". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 9 (8): 499–503. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2010.09.005.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

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[Novas-1] Fernando Emilio Novas, Federico Lisandro Agnolín and Carlos Agustín Scanferla (2010). "New enantiornithine bird (Aves, Ornithothoraces) from the Late Cretaceous of NW Argentina". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 9 (8): 499–503. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2010.09.005.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)