Fukuipteryx prima
"feather"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Fukuipteryx 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (120 Mya)
- Place
- Japan
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Fukuipteryx is an extinct genus of basal avialan dinosaurs found in Early Cretaceous deposits from Japan’s Kitadani Formation. It contains one species, Fukuipteryx prima.
What we know
- Named by Imai et al., 2019.
- Fossils found in Japan.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Fukuipteryx — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.