Zheng's boluoch

Boluochia zhengi

(Zhou 1995)

    Boluochia zhengi is one of the few avian predators of Liaoning, in Early Cretaceous China.  Using its hooked beak and powerful pedal talons, this bird easily dispatches such prey as Confuciusornis.

Thanks to Mickey Mortimer, who sent me his skeletal reconstruction of Boluochia.
Other sites containing pertinent information:

• T. Mike Keesey's Boluochia page
• Picture Book of Chinese Fossil Birds, by Hou Lianhai, published in 2000 by the Yunnan science and Technology Press.