Mirusavis

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Mirusavis 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.

Mirusavis is a genus of Enantiornithes from the early Cretaceous (Aptian – Barremian) of China recovered in the Yixian Formation. It contains a single species, Mirusavis parvus.

What we know

  • Named by Wang et al., 2020.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Mirusavis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.