Neimengornis Neimengornis
"Inner Mongolia bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Neimengornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- 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.