Eoalulavis hoyasi

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Eoalulavis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (125 Mya)
Place
Spain
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.

Eoalulavis (from the Ancient Greek: Éōs, “dawn”; alula, “bastard wing”; avis, “bird”) is a monotypic genus of enantiornithean bird that lived during the Barremian, in the Lower Cretaceous around 125 million years ago. The only known species is Eoalulavis hoyasi.

What we know

  • Named by Sanz et al., 1996.
  • Fossils found in Spain.

What we guess

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