Kaririavis
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kaririavis 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
- Gondwana · Brazil
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Kaririavis is an extinct genus of ornithuromorph dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. It contains one species, K. mater. It is known only from its holotype, which consists of a single foot. Kaririavis is the oldest known ornithuromorph from Gondwana.
What we know
- Named by Carvalho et al., 2021.
- Fossils found in Gondwana and Brazil.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Kaririavis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.