''Elektorornis'' is an extinct genus of

enantiornithean The Enantiornithes, also known as enantiornithines or enantiornitheans in literature, are a group of extinct avialans ("birds" in the broad sense), the most abundant and diverse group known from the Mesozoic era. Almost all retained teeth and cl ...

bird known from a partial hindlimb and a small amount of wing plumage. It contains a single species, ''Elektorornis chenguangi''. The hindlimb and feathers were preserved in a piece of 99 million year old

Burmese Amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. Th ...

found in

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

. In life, the bird would have been slightly smaller than a sparrow and possibly used its characteristically elongated middle toe to probe for food. ''Elektorornis chenguangi'' is the first species of bird described from remains found in Burmese amber, although other undiagnostic enantiornithean specimens have previously been found in amber. is Greek for 'amber bird'.

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* Late Cretaceous birds of Asia Enantiornithes Fossil taxa described in 2019 Taxa named by Luis M. Chiappe {{Paleo-bird-stub