Jiuquanornis niui Jiuquanornis
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jiuquanornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Jiuquanornis is an extinct genus of basal ornithuromorph dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous Xiagou Formation of Changma Basin, Gansu Province of northwestern China. Jiuquanornis was first named by Ya-Ming Wang, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Da-Qing Li and Hai-Lu You in 2013 and the type species is Jiuquanornis niui.
What we know
- Named by Wang et al., 2013.
- Fossils found in China.