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The species was first described in 2015
This is off by a year: Chongmingia zhengi was formally published in Scientific Reports on January 25, 2016, not in 2015.
Full reasoning
The primary source for the taxon's description is the Scientific Reports paper "A new basal bird from China with implications for morphological diversity in early birds." The journal page explicitly lists the article as Published: 25 January 2016 and identifies Chongmingia zhengi there as the new taxon being described.
2015 appears to be the submission year, not the publication year: the paper was received in July 2015 and accepted in December 2015, but the formal description was published in 2016. So saying the species was "first described in 2015" is incorrect.
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- A new basal bird from China with implications for morphological diversity in early birds | Scientific Reports
Published: 25 January 2016 ... Here we report a new bird, Chongmingia zhengi gen. et sp. nov., from the Jehol Biota.