Parahongshanornis chaoyangensis Parahongshanornis
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Parahongshanornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (120 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Hongshanornithidae
Parahongshanornis is an extinct genus of early bird from the lower Cretaceous (Aptian stage) of what is now Liaoning Province, north-eastern China.
Parahongshanornis was first named by Li Li, Wang Jingqi and Hou Shilin in 2011 and the type species is Parahongshanornis chaoyangensis. The generic name refers to an assumed close relationship with Hongshanornis. The specific name refers to Chaoyang.
What we know
- Named by Li et al., 2011.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.