Abitusavis Abitusavis

"departure bird"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Abitusavis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Yanornithidae

Abitusavis (meaning “departure bird”) is an extinct genus of ornithuromorph dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, Abitusavis lii, known from a nearly complete skeleton.

What we know

  • Named by Wang et al., 2020.
  • Fossils found in China.