Brodavis americanus Brodavis
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Brodavis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (80.5 Mya)
- Place
- North America · Asia · United States · Canada
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Brodavidae
Brodavis is a genus of freshwater hesperornithiform birds known from the Late Cretaceous (possibly Campanian and Maastrichtian stage) of North America and Asia. It was first described and named by Larry D. Martin, Evgeny N. Kurochkin and Tim T. Tokaryk in 2012 and assigned to a new monogeneric family, Brodavidae. Four species were described and assigned to Brodavis.
thumb|Size comparison of the tarsometatarsus of B. varneri (A), B. americanus (B), and B.baileyi (C) The type species, B. americanus, is known from the holotype left metatarsal, RSM P 2315.1 which was collected in the Maastrichtian-age Frenchman Formation of Canada.
What we know
- Named by Martin et al., 2012.
- Fossils found in North America and Asia.