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Although enantiornitheans are often stereotyped as arboreal birds, several also occuipied terrestrial and aquatic niches. One particular clade of long-legged species was recovered in Hartman 2019, here tentatively dubbed Lectavidae.
The largest of the three - and one of the largest known Mesozoic flying birds to boot - Lectavis bretincola had leg adaptations similar to those of modern flamingos, and was likely a wader that couldn't perch. About as unarboreal as it gets.
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Although enantiornitheans are often stereotyped as arboreal birds, several also occuipied terrestrial and aquatic niches. One particular clade of long-legged species was recovered in Hartman 2019, here tentatively dubbed Lectavidae.
The largest of the three - and one of the largest known Mesozoic flying birds to boot - Lectavis bretincola had leg adaptations similar to those of modern flamingos, and was likely a wader that couldn't perch. About as unarboreal as it gets.
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