Kunpengornis anhuimusei
"Kunpeng bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kunpengornis 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
- Piscivore (fish-eater)
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Kunpengornis (meaning “Kunpeng bird”) is an extinct genus of euornithean birds known from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian age) Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province, China. The genus contains a single species, Kunpengornis anhuimusei, known from a nearly complete and articulated skeleton. Fish bones preserved in the abdominal cavity indicate that Kunpengornis was piscivorous.
What we know
- Named by Huang et al., 2026.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Kunpengornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.