Eogranivora edentulata
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Eogranivora 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
- China
- Food
- Omnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Eogranivora is a bird genus, belonging to the Ornithuromorpha, that lived in the area of present-day China during the Early Cretaceous. Its type species is Eogranivora edentulata.
In 2011, a bird fossil, specimen STM35-3 found at Dawangzhangzi, was referred to Hongshanornis. Subsequently, that genus was proven to possess teeth, while STM35-3 is toothless. Additional research showed that the latter represented a species new to science.
What we know
- Named by Zheng et al., 2018.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Eogranivora — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.