Gurilynia nessovi Gurilynia
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Gurilynia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (70–66 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Enantiornithidae
Gurilynia is a genus of enantiornithine birds. One species is known, G. nessovi. It lived during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous period, between 70 and 66 mya. Gurilynia is known from fragmentary fossils found at the Gurilyn Tsav locality of the Nemegt Formation in south Gobi, Mongolia.
What we know
- Named by Kurochkin, 1999.
- Fossils found in Asia and Mongolia.