Dinosaurs to Birds Evolution Data Table

Name Archaeopteryx Rahonavis Jeholornis Changchengornis Confuciusornis Cathayornis Gabipteryx Neuquenorni Concornis Eoalulavis Iberomesorni Protopteryx Patagopter Vorona Apsaravis Hesperonorni Ichthyornis
s s yx thiforms

Year 1860- 1995 2002 1998 1995 1992 1971 1994 1992 1996 1985 2000 1992 1996 2001 2001 1870
reported
1861

Country
where
Southern
Germany
Northwester
n
China China China China Gobi Northern
Patagonia
Spain Spain East
central
Norther
n China
Northwest
ern
Madaga Mongolia
scar
North
America
USA
found Madagascar r Desert ,
Patagonia
Spain Argentina
Argentina

Geologic Around Around 160 Around 125 mya Roughly

161 Million
130- 120 85 125 125 Roughly 131 80 70.6- 75 150 95-83.5
al age 150 million 125 mya 83.5 mya
(mya) Million
120 mya to 100 113 mya mya mya mya mya mya mya mya
years ago mya
years ago Million mya
years ago
Habitat
(land,
Shallow
warm
Land Wet Lake Lake Land Land Dense Aquatic
Environ
Land Lake Forest Land Land Land Semi- Shorelin
e or
fresh Lands Forest ment or Wet Coastlin
water, tropical and Desert Areas e
shallow Sea
sea, open Lake
ocean)
Discriptio It has two Rahonavis Jeholornis was Changchengornis Confuciusorn Cathayorn Gobiptery It is known It was about It was It is quite They are They had They It was kind They An
legs and was a small a large bird for resembles its is is can be x has a from much 9 roughly the small, no same to red feet with shows a of small average
n (what looked
predator with its kind with relative was a told apart toothless of the centimeters size of bigger than bird of fused mix of sized bird, specimen
does it wings. Its a european paradise. like
the typical long feathers Confuciusornis. feathered from
beak skeleton long, with a a large bones, primitive with a was the
looks color can The type dinosaur similar wingspan of goldfinch Their teeth much like avian modern size of
Velociraptor- and a long formed it probably modern sp body
like?) be orange specimen is with many Enantiorni 22 with the bony were modern features as birds. Hes a pigeon,
like raised bony tail. They from the had a elements of arrow.It unserrated length
and blue sickle claw on had a large rather small, features in tes by its centimeters had birds. They well as (w/o the perornith It is
fusion of wingspan its wings & some
the second wingspanhe
smaller than the common larger .and its
approximatel relatively teeth had a
did not some that
tail) of 18 oides was
notable
smallest known with modern size, a the prem of more breast have a seem very primarily
toe Jeholornis y 17 cm, their short resorption cm. It had extensivel
specimens of birds, such as shorter axillae than 30 musculatur sternums is a pit. Their wishbone modern. for its
skull was short wings, the a small y
Confuciusornis. long wings, a and bones. centimeter e must have very thin one, body is , Their Vorona combinat
and small but wingspan head, with
quite high. Its
Compared to the toothless straighter Their s, and a been very with an was about covered in legs had
might be a
long wings
feathered ion of
latter, it had a beak, and no first finger skull's body weird due expanded 3 types of primitive . vertebrae
tail featured a beak that was long, bony with a to a unique twenty cm. very ornithuro and the which are
general length of front end feathers: do
fan of feathers more pointed, tail. slightly wishbone tapering to a It bore a wn short morph. ability to concave
at the tip that shape is about 15 single claw femurs. extend its
slightly hooked at longer and a small, point as well feathers, fli They had a both in
looked like a the tip, claw, and gradually centimeter Y-shaped as a rear tip on each ght Their deinonych hand . It front and
palm frond proportionally other tapering keel with wing. feathers, second osaur-like had long back
shorter, and anatomica toward outward- and long, toe has a sickle claw legs & long similar to
higher at the l details. the front. pointing ribbon-like
curved cl on each feet & some
back. extensions. tail foot. stout toes. fish.
feathers. aw
Can it It could fly. It can fly. The shoulder They were It can fly. They can Gobipter They have They can They are They are Protopter They They The They can They
fly? After Rahonavis girdles of able to fly The sternal fly, its yx is unique fly becuse capable pf low speed yx was studies fly. have
Jeholornis well- did not say,
scanning keel and flight flying, he adapted Hesperor strong
How? Archaeopter
shoulder were well because of preserved believed of their flying have a they says that
bones show their deltopector to have abilities extremely study because for flying they can nithoides flight
yx fossils in developed and
al
skeleton
found that and had wishbo can fly.
a particle evidence of probably undoubtly and wing been cap because long they are fly. The has a abilities
accelerator allowed for crest (which outline of their they likely impaired feathers ne, Scientifi curved
ligament pair of long able of wings and new fossil becaus
known as a better flight provides a provide very long engaged by the lack with meanin c has a wishbone, e of
synchrotron, attachments and feathery more flight. relied in boundin features
researchers allowing the
capability than
wings and
insight
The wings.Its heavily
of a bony g that it showed feature an their
seen in powerful into the g flight, a keel on same to
found its independent Archaeopteryx. their density upstroke) aerodyna scapula long, on form of modern
would that on a bone important wings
wing bones the
mobility The flight of blood are mic is long, slender flapping flight sternum birds, as have this of its site of and
matched
modern needed for apparatus of vessels. adaptations performa and legs and flight popular as shown by been kind of hand that muscle breastb
the Jeholornis nce of hooked indicates attachme one.
birds that flapping was overall
to flapping
enantiorni therefor rather among attachmen their impossi birds
flap their flight in claws modern procoraco a muscle nt for arm
wings to fly
flight quite similar to thines, e, well than t for the ble for had
modern would small and flight id, carina arrangem muscles
short that of suggestin suited soaring, it to evolved
Confuciusornis birds, g that have let it short- muscles; it of the ent that were
distances or for flight due to its have their
in bursts. in form and indicating these perch and winged is sternum, connectin used for
that
by long birds. A external had the efficient
function, with birds had acquire uncertain g the flight in
having feathers
forelimbs Confuciusor evolved
food from
bird whether a tuberosity muscles modern movemen
early
longer than nis may bounding more making engaging in of the t of the
the trees true foram necessa style of birds, as
hindlimbs, and have been flight—a area for up that bounding en humerus, hand to
a short, robust
capable of flight muscle and the wingspan flight and
ry for flight. well as a
triosseum movemen
hand.
the same.
mode
attachm ground, rather alternates was deltoid flying. particular
common t of the
ent. In giving it a than its between present, crest. wrist
to forearm.
passerifor addition, somewha bones. upward- through These bone
This
ms and the t raptorial thrusting which a features
muscle called the
other lifestyle. flaps and tendon suggest semilunat
forelimb arrangem
small short dives could Protopter e carpal
living of with folded yx had ent seen
elevate that
birds Gobipter wings. The modern in living
and supina allowed
yx is study also musculus birds
te the
more found that supercora performs for bird-
wing.
than they were coideus a key role like
twice the capable of and in folding of
length of continuous pectoralis transition the hand
the flapping .Protopte from the under the
thorax, flight, but ryx also upstroke arm.
were likely share to the
falling
unable to asymmetr down
within glide due ic wing stroke.
the to having a flight That’s
acceptab high body feathers why they
le range mass to with can fly.
observed wingspan flying
in flying ratio. birds.
birds.