Jianchangornis
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jianchangornis 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
- Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Jianchangornis a genus of basal ornithuromorph dinosaurs. Fossils were recovered from the Jiufotang Formation at Liaoning, China.
What we know
- Named by Zhou et al., 2009.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Jianchangornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.