Parvavis chuxiongensis

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Parvavis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.

Parvavis is a genus of enantiornithean bird, known from the upper Cretaceous (Turonian–Santonian) of China in the Jiangdihe Formation. The type and only species, Parvavis chuxiongensis, was recovered in Luojumei Village, Chuxiong City, Yunnan Province, southern China, and it was the only known Mesozoic bird from south China at the time of its discovery. Based on its bone structure, the holotype was determined to be nearly fully grown at its time of death and would have been smaller than Iberomesornis, the smallest known enantiornithine prior to the description of Parvavis.

What we know

  • Named by Wang et al., 2014.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Parvavis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.