Navaornis hestiae
"bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Navaornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (85–75 Mya)
- Place
- Brazil
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Navaornis is an extinct genus of enantiornithean birds from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of Brazil. The genus contains a single species, N. hestiae, known from a well preserved skull and skeleton.
What we know
- Named by Chiappe et al., 2024.
- Fossils found in Brazil.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Navaornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.