Cathayornis
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Cathayornis 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 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Cathayornis is a genus of enantiornithean birds, from the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning, People’s Republic of China. It is known definitively from only one species, Cathayornis yandica, one of the first Enantiornithes found in China. Several additional species were once incorrectly classified as Cathayornis, and have since been reclassified or regarded as nomina dubia.
What we know
- Named by Zhou, Jin & Zhang, 1992.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Cathayornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.