Dingavis longimaxilla

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Dingavis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (122.1 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.

Dingavis is an extinct genus of ornithuromorph dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of present-day China. It contains a single species, D. longimaxilla.

What we know

  • Named by O'Connor et al., 2015.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Dingavis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.