Brevirostruavis
"short rostrum bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Brevirostruavis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (120–113 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Brevirostruavis (meaning “short rostrum bird”) is a genus of Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning, China. The type and only species is Brevirostruavis macrohyoideus.
What we know
- Named by Li et al., 2021.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Brevirostruavis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.