Gobipipus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Gobipipus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (80–76 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Gobipipus (“Gobi Desert chick”) is a genus of enantiornithine bird. It lived during the middle Campanian stage of the Upper Cretaceous around 80 to 76 million years ago in what is now Mongolia. It is known from an incomplete embryonic individual that was found during a joint Russian-Mongolian Expedition to the Barun Goyot Formation of the Gobi Desert.
What we know
- Named by Kurochkin, Chatterjee, & Mikhailov, 2013.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Gobipipus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.