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        Alexornis is a genus of enantiornithine bird that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now North America. It was a distant relative of Iberomesornis, another enantiornithine bird featured in the Walking with Dinosaurs episode, "Giant of the Skies".

In Walking with Dinosaurs: The Movie[]

An Alexornis named Alex appeared in the film. He acted as a companion of the main lead, a Pachyrhinosaurus named Patchi.

Known Individuals[]

Trivia[]

  • Alexornis, while depicted rather reasonably, has some possible inaccuracies that are inconsistent with the real findings of Enantiornithe birds. They include scaly feet (all feathered non-ornithurine dinosaurs with preserved foot integruments show that they had feet covered with feathers; some Enantiornithes even had Microraptor-like hindwings), scaly clawed fingers (Enantiornithes had fused fingers that supported the wing just as modern birds do, albeit with very large claws) and a beak-like snout (most toothed Enantiornithes had skulls akin to those of Archaeopteryx and other "normal" theropods, with actual snouts).

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