Palintropus Palintropus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Palintropus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (76.5–66 Mya)
- Place
- Alberta, Canada · Wyoming, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Quercymegapodiidae
Palintropus is a prehistoric bird genus from the Late Cretaceous. A single species has been named (Palintropus retusus) based on a proximal coracoid from the Lance Formation of Wyoming, dated to the latest Maastrichtian, million years ago. Coracoids and a proximal scapula of two unnamed species from the upper Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, dating to between 76.5 and 75 million years ago, are also known. thumb|left|Size (lower middle right) compared to contemporary birds, pterosaurs, and a human
What we know
- Named by (Marsh, 1892).
- Fossils found in Alberta, Canada and Wyoming, USA.