Gobipteryx
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Gobipteryx 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (75–71 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Gobipteryx (from Gobi [referring to the Gobi Desert where it was first discovered], and Greek pteryx “wing”) is a genus of prehistoric bird from the Campanian Age of the Late Cretaceous Period. It is not known to have any direct descendants. Like the rest of the enantiornithes clade, Gobipteryx is thought to have gone extinct near the end of the Cretaceous.
What we know
- Named by Elżanowski, 1974.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Gobipteryx — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.