Ambiortus dementjevi Ambiortus

"Etymology TBD"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ambiortus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (130 Mya)
Place
Mongolia
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria

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.