Enantiornis
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Enantiornis 1.2 m (3.9 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 1.2 m (3.9 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Enantiornis is a genus of Enantiornithes. The type and only currently accepted species E. leali is from the Late Cretaceous Lecho Formation at El Brete, Argentina. It was described from specimen PVL-4035, a coracoid, proximal scapula and proximal humerus found close to each other and suspected to represent the left shoulder of a single individual.
What we know
- Named by Walker, 1981.
- Body length estimated at about 1.2 m.
- Fossils found in South America and Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Enantiornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.