Gobipteryx Gobipteryx
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Gobipteryx 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (75–71 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.