Feitianius paradisi
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Feitianius 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (124–120 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Feitianius is a bird genus, belonging to the Enantiornithes, that during the Early Cretaceous lived in the area of modern China. A single species has been named in the genus, Feitianius paradisi.
In 2005, fragmentary enantiornithean fossils were excavated near Changma, in Gansu. Two of the best preserved were reported in the scientific literature in 2009.
What we know
- Named by O'Connor et al., 2015.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Feitianius — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.