Palaeortyx pa-LAEO-rty
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Palaeortyx 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (33.9–2.6 Mya)
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Phasianidae
Palaeortyx is a phasianidae known from the Cretaceous period, of uncertain origin. Most of what’s published comes from a small number of specimens, and the fuller picture of how it lived is still being worked out.
What we know
- Originally named by Milne-Edwards 1869.