Protoavis texensis

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According to its discoverer, Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, Protoavis texensis ("first flyer of Texas") was an extinct bird that lived during the Late Triassic of Texas, around 220 million years ago. If P. texensis was indeed a bird, it would predate Archaeopteryx by over 75 million years ago. Chatterjee reconstructs P. texensis as being a chicken-sized bird, similiar in appearance to, but more advanced than Archaeopteryx. However, many, if not most, paleontologists and ornithologists question Chatterjee's hypothesis and reconstructions, especially since the remains he used were a jumble of crushed bones. Some experts suspect that not all of the bones are of the same species, making Chatterjee's bird a chimera.

See Also

• The Protoavis controversy
• Protoavis disproves avian phylogenetics
• Sankar Chatterjee's reconstruction [1]

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