Qiliania (from the Xiongnu qilian, "heaven") is an extinct genus of early bird from the lower Cretaceous (Aptian stage) about 120 million years ago. It is an enantiornithean which lived in what is now Gansu Province, north-western China. It is known from two incomplete, semi-articulated and three-dimensionally preserved skeletons, which were found in the Xiagou Formation of the Changma Basin. It was first named by Shu-An Ji, Jessie Atterholt, Jingmai O'Connor, Matthew Lamanna, Jerry Harrs, Li Da-Qing, You Hai-Lu and Peter Dodson in 2011 and the type species is Qiliania graffini. The species wa
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祁連鳥屬（學名：Qiliania）為一屬已滅絕的反鳥類，由等人於2011年發表描述，其化石出土於距今約1.2億年前的白堊紀阿普第期，位於今中國甘肅省玉門市昌馬鄉、下溝組的地層中，共有兩件，其中一件包含骨盆左側與完整的左下肢，另一件為接近完整的右下肢，有別於多數的鳥類化石均已被壓碎，這兩件化石仍保有立體結構。 本屬學名來自昌馬盆地南側的祁連山，「祁連」在匈奴語中意指天堂。本屬模式種為格拉芬祁連鳥（Qiliania graffini），種小名得名自朋克搖滾樂隊邪教合唱團創始成員、同時也是古生物學家的。
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).