Noguerornis is a genus of enantiornithine bird possibly related to Iberomesornis. It lived during the Early Cretaceous (early Barremian age) about 130 mya and is known from fossils found in the La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation at El Montsec, Spain.[1][2]
| Noguerornis Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Avialae |
| Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
| Genus: | †Noguerornis Lacasa-Ruiz, 1989 |
| Species: | †N. gonzalezi
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| †Noguerornis gonzalezi Lacasa-Ruiz, 1989
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References
edit- ^ Lacasa-Ruiz, A. (1989) New genus of fossil bird from the Neocomian locality of Montsec (Lerida province, Spain). Estudios Geológicos 45(5-6):417-425.
- ^ Chiappe, L. and Lacasa-Ruiz (2002). "Noguerornis gonzalezi (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Early Cretaceous of Spain." Pp. 230-239 in Chiappe and Witmer, (eds.). Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London.
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