Lestornis le-STO-rni
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lestornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Hesperornithidae
Lestornis is a hesperornithidae known from the Cretaceous period, of uncertain origin. Most of what’s published comes from a small number of specimens, and the fuller picture of how it lived is still being worked out.
What we know
- Originally named by Marsh 1876.