Musivavis amabilis
"mosaic bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Musivavis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (122–118.9 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Musivavis (meaning “mosaic bird”) is a genus of euenantiornithean bird from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province, China. The genus contains a single species, Musivavis amabilis, known from a nearly complete, articulated skeleton.
What we know
- Named by Wang et al., 2022.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Musivavis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.