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.