Coturnipes cooperi co-tu-RNI-pe
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Coturnipes 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (56–48.1 Mya)
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Phasianidae
Coturnipes is a phasianidae known from the Cretaceous period, of uncertain origin. Most of what’s published comes from a small number of specimens, and the fuller picture of how it lived is still being worked out.
What we know
- Originally named by Harrison and Walker 1977.