Hongshanornithidae

{{Short description|Extinct family of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Hongshanornithids

| fossil_range = Early Cretaceous,{{cite journal|doi=10.1038/ncomms7987|pmid=25942493|title=The oldest record of ornithuromorpha from the early cretaceous of China|journal=Nature Communications|volume=6|pages=6987|year=2015|last1=Wang|first1=Min|last2=Zheng|first2=Xiaoting|last3=o’Connor|first3=Jingmai K.|last4=Lloyd|first4=Graeme T.|last5=Wang|first5=Xiaoli|last6=Wang|first6=Yan|last7=Zhang|first7=Xiaomei|last8=Zhou|first8=Zhonghe|bibcode=2015NatCo...6.6987W|pmc=5426517}} {{fossilrange|130.7|120}}

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| taxon = Hongshanornithidae

| authority = O'Connor, Gao & Chiappe, 2010

| type_species = {{extinct}}Hongshanornis longicresta

| type_species_authority = Zhou & Zhang, 2005

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

• {{extinct}}Archaeornithura
• {{extinct}}Hongshanornis
• {{extinct}}Longicrusavis
• {{extinct}}Parahongshanornis
• {{extinct}}Tianyuornis

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Hongshanornithidae is an extinct group of early ornithuromorph birds from the early Cretaceous period of China. It includes the genera Hongshanornis (the type genus) and Tianyuornis from the Yixian Formation of Inner Mongolia, Longicrusavis from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, Parahongshanornis from the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province, and Archaeornithura, the oldest known member, from the Huajiying Formation of Hebei Province.{{cite journal |last=Zhou |first=Z. |author2=Zhang, F. |year=2005 |title=Discovery of an ornithurine bird and its implication for Early Cretaceous avian radiation |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA |volume=102 |issue=52 |pages=18998–19002 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0507106102 |pmid=16344487 |pmc=1323170|bibcode=2005PNAS..10218998Z |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last=O'Connor |first=J.K. |author2=Gao, K.-Q. |author3= Chiappe, L.M. |year=2010 |title=A new ornithuromorph (Aves: Ornithothoraces) bird from the Jehol Group indicative of higher-level diversity |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=311–321 |doi=10.1080/02724631003617498 |s2cid=53489175 |url=http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/462280__920289337.pdf}}{{cite journal |last=Li |first=Li |author2=Jing-Qi Wang and Shi-Lin Hou |year=2011 |title=A new ornithurine bird (Hongshanornithidae) from the Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201105/P020110530508998177705.pdf |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=195–200 }}