Lenesornis maltshevskyi
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lenesornis 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
- Mongolia · Uzbekistan
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Alexornithidae
Lenesornis is a genus of enantiornithine birds which lived during the Late Cretaceous about 90 Ma and is known from fossils found in the Bissekty Formation in the Kyzyl Kum, Uzbekistan.
What we know
- Named by (Nesov, 1986 [originally Ichthyornis).
- Fossils found in Mongolia and Uzbekistan.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Lenesornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.