Bannykus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Bannykus 2.8 m (9.1 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 2.8 m (9.1 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125–113 Mya)
- Place
- China · Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Bannykus is an extinct genus of alvarezsauroid from the Early Cretaceous Bayin-Gobi Formation of Inner Mongolia, China. It includes one species, Bannykus wulatensis.
What we know
- Named by Xu et al., 2018.
- Body length estimated at about 2.77 m.
- Fossils found in China and Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Bannykus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.