Kizylkumavis cretacea
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kizylkumavis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (90 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · Uzbekistan
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Alexornithidae
Kizylkumavis is an extinct genus of enantiornithine birds known from the Late Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of the Kyzyl Kum in Uzbekistan.
What we know
- Named by Nesov, 1984.
- Fossils found in Asia and Uzbekistan.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Kizylkumavis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.