Holbotia ponomarenkoi

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Holbotia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
Place
Mongolia
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.

Holbotia is an extinct monotypic genus of enantiornithean bird that lived in Mongolia during the Early Cretaceous epoch. It contains the single species Holbotia ponomarenkoi.

What we know

  • Named by Zelenkov and Averianov, 2016.
  • Fossils found in Mongolia.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Holbotia — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.