Linyiornis amoena
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Linyiornis 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
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Linyiornis is an extinct genus of enantiornithean that inhabited China during the Early Cretaceous epoch. It is a monotypic genus known from the species L. amoena.
What we know
- Named by Wang et. al., 2016.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Linyiornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.