Elsornis keni
"sand"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Elsornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (80 Mya)
- Place
- North America · Mongolia
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Elsornis is a genus of enantiornithean bird. Only one species has been named, Elsornis keni. It lived during the Late Cretaceous. It is known from a partially articulated fossil skeleton found in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
The holotype fossil has been given the catalogue number MPD - b 100/201. It is in the collection of the Mongolian Palaeontological Center. The fossil was collected at Togrogiin Shiree, South Gobi Aimak, Mongolia; Djadokhta Formation, Late Cretaceous, Campanian.
What we know
- Named by Chiappe et al., 2007.
- Fossils found in North America and Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Elsornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.