Kunpengornis anhuimusei Kunpengornis
"Kunpeng bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kunpengornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Piscivore (fish-eater)
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.