Kuszholia mengi
"Milky Way bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kuszholia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (90–86 Mya)
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Kuszholia (meaning “Milky Way bird” after the Kazakh term for the Milky Way, құс жолы qus jolı) is the name given to a genus of primitive birds or bird-like dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous.
What we know
- Named by Nesov, 1992.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Kuszholia — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.