within a species.: 50  In the case of Confuciusornis, only C. sanctus is universally accepted. Confuciusornis chuonzhous was named by Hou in 1997 based...

pheomelanosomes preserved in a specimen of Confuciusornis, (IVPP V13171). This suggested that Confuciusornis had hues of grey, red/brown and black. This...

species name sanctus (Latin for "sacred") occurs in several binomial names in the taxonomy of life. Examples include: Confuciusornis sanctus, a prehistoric...

PMID 38955226. Hou, L; Zhou, Z; Gu, Y; Zhang, H (1995). "Description of Confuciusornis sanctus". Chinese Science Bulletin. 10: 61–63. Chiappe, Luis M. et al. (1999)...

sometimes 2–4 central "streamers" such as those found in some specimens of Confuciusornis or in Paraprotopteryx. By contrast, the function of the pygostyle in...

Confuciusornis sanctus, a Cretaceous bird from China that lived 125 million years ago, is the oldest known bird to have a beak....

University of California Press. Chiappe, L. (1997). "The Chinese early bird Confuciusornis and the paraphyletic status of Sauriurae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...

in an Early Cretaceous avian genus: evidence from a new species of Confuciusornis from China". Journal of Ornithology. 150 (4): 783–790. doi:10.1007/s10336-009-0399-x...

(2024). A morphometric study of a large sample of specimens of Confuciusornis sanctus is published by Zhou et al. (2024), who interpret their findings...

R. Horner; E. T. Lamm; N. Myhrvold (2003). "Osteohistology of confuciusornis sanctus (theropoda: Aves)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23 (2):...