Minggangia is an extinct genus of bird containing one species, Minggangia changgouensis. Fossils were discovered in the Lizhuang Formation of Henan Province, China. This formation was dated back at the late Eocene period.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Minggangia Hou, 1982[1] |
| Species: | †M. changgouensis
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| †Minggangia changgouensis Hou, 1982[1]
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Classification
editThe genus and species were first described in 1982. The original describer considered that Minggangia changgouensis was an ibis, comparing it to Ibidopsis hordwelliensis, and placing it in the family Threskiornithidae.[1] Ibidopsis has also been placed in the rails (family Rallidae), a placement supported for Minggangia in 2005 based on bone anatomy.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Hou, Lian-hai (1982). "New form of the Threskiornithidae from the Upper Eocene of the Minggang, Henan" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 20 (3): 196–202. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 May 2020. Retrieved 13 October 2019. [in Chinese with English abstract].
- ^ Stidham, Thomas A.; Holroyd, Patricia A.; Gunnell, Gregg F.; Ciochon, Russell L.; Tsubamoto, Takehisa; Egi, Naoko & Takai, Masanaru (2005). "An Ibis-like Bird (Aves: cf. Threskiornithidae) from the Late Middle Eocene of Myanmar" (PDF). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology (The University of Michigan). 31 (7): 179–184. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
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