This dinosaur restoration is inaccurate, or its accuracy is disputed.
Reason: The bird in the image has euornithine-style tail feathers. Enantiornithes either have spaced pairs of long ribbon-like feathers or no tail feathers at all, depending on the species. Folding fans of vaned feathers are unique to Euornithes. Liaoningornis was originally classified as a euornithine so it may simply have become outdated. The description also weirdly lists it as having a beak for some reason, but I don't think that was ever suggested. In fact the reference image is definitely not the sole described specimen of this bird, not sure what that thing is...[1]
You may ask further questions about the accuracy of this image at the image review page of WikiProject Dinosaurs on the English Wikipedia. Note that this image may be appropriate to illustrate obsolete paleontological views.
Summary
DescriptionLiaoningornis 2.JPG
English: Illustration of how the cretaceousbirdLiaoningornis could have looked. Believed to be about 140 years old, this beaked bird was the size of a sparrow.
This illustration is based on a fossil found here: [2].
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