Soft tissue preservation in two new enantiornithine specimens (Aves) from the Lower Cretaceous Huajiying Formation of Hebei Province, China

We describe two nearly complete enantiornithine skeletons from the Lower Cretaceous Huajiying Formation (ca. 130.7 Ma) of northern Hebei province, China. Many morphological features indicate that these specimens represent a new taxon, here named Orienantius ritteri gen. et sp.. nov. The new fossils preserve their plumage as well as rare information about their soft tissues, including the wing's patagia. Multivariate analyses of their skeleton...