Junornis

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Junornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (126 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.

Junornis is a bird genus, belonging to the Enantiornithes, that during the Early Cretaceous lived in the area of present China.

What we know

  • Named by Liu et al., 2017.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

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