Neimengornis
"Inner Mongolia bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Neimengornis 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 · Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Jeholornithiformes
Neimengornis (meaning “Inner Mongolia bird”) is an extinct genus of jeholornithiform avialan dinosaurs that lived in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous. It contains one species, N. rectusmim, which is known from a single specimen, holotype IMMNH-PV00122, discovered in the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning.
What we know
- Named by Wang et al., 2021.
- Fossils found in China and Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Neimengornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.