Jiuquanornis niui
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jiuquanornis 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
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Jiuquanornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.