Ambiortus dementjevi
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ambiortus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (130 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Ambiortus is an extinct genus of ornithuromorph dinosaurs. The only known species, Ambiortus dementjevi, lived sometime during the Barremian age between 136.4 and 125 million years ago in the Andaikhudag Formation of Mongolia. It was discovered by Yevgeny Kurochkin in 1982.
What we know
- Named by Kurochkin, 1989.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Ambiortus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.