Flexomornis Flexomornis
"flexed shoulder bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Flexomornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (96 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Flexomornis (meaning “flexed shoulder bird”) is a genus of enantiornithean birds known from fossils found in Texas rocks belonging to the Woodbine Formation (Lewisville Member) dating to the middle Cenomanian age of the late Cretaceous period. It contains a single species, Flexomornis howei, named for the amateur fossil hunter Kris Howe, who discovered the site where the fossils were found.
The holotype of F. howei was found 100 m away from the holotype of Ampelognathus coheni.
What we know
- Named by Tykoski & Fiorillo, 2010.