Pliogallus plio-GA-llu
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Pliogallus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (4.2–2.2 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Phasianidae
Pliogallus 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 Gaillard 1939.