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protoavis

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Noun1.protoavis - most primitive avian type known; extinct bird of the Triassic having bird-like jaw and hollow limbs and breastbone with dinosaur-like tail and hind limbs
bird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
genus Protoavis - extinct primitive birds of the Triassic period; 70 million years before archaeopteryx
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A well-known paleontologist, he owns finder's rights to the world's only known specimens of Protoavis -- reputed to be the oldest bird ever discovered.
The lonely bird: claims of the earliest avian fossil launch a ... by Monastersky, Richard / Science News
If so, then the fossils, to which Chatterjee has given the genus name Protoavis (ancestral bird), add credence to the notion that birds originally arose from dinosaurs.
Oldest bird and longest dinosaur by Weisburd, Stefi / Science News
 
 
 
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