Houornis
"tailed Cathay bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Houornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (120 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Houornis is a genus of enantiornithean birds from the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning, People’s Republic of China. It is known from a single species, Houornis caudatus, which had been once been classified as a species of Cathayornis, and has also been regarded as a nomen dubium.
What we know
- Named by (Hou, 1997) Wang & Liu 2015.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Houornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.