Cathayornis Cathayornis
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Cathayornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (120 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.