Enantiophoenix electrophyla Enantiophoenix

"Etymology TBD"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Enantiophoenix 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (95 Mya)
Place
Unknown locality
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Avisauridae

Enantiophoenix is an extinct genus of enantiornithean birds known from fossil remains recovered from the Sannine Formation of Lebanon. Lumps of amber preserved with one specimen indicate it may have fed on tree sap.

What we know

  • Named by Cau & Arduini, 2008.