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Meaning of enantiornitas



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enantiornitas
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Castellanization of the term Enantiornithes . It means opposite birds or counterfacts . They take this name because it presents the scapula and the coracoid to the current birds in the opposite way. It was a group of Cretaceous birds (Enantiornithes).

  



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Enantiornites : Extinct group of flying birds, subclass of the Aves class since the scapula and the coracoid are oriented in the opposite way to that of modern birds. All birds are excludive of the Cretaceous. Up to 30 species have been catalogued and their size varied between the size of a sparrow and the height of 1 x 2 meters.

  










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