Kookne yeutensis
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kookne 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (70 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Kookne is a prehistoric ornithuran genus from the Late Cretaceous. Known from a coracoid, the remains of the only known species Kookne yeutensis were found in rocks from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Chorrillo Formation of Santa Cruz, Argentina.
What we know
- Named by Novas et al, 2019.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Kookne — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.