Microenantiornis mi-croe-na-NTIO-rni

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Microenantiornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (121.4–113.2 Mya)
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.

Microenantiornis is a dinosaur 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 Wei and Li 2017.