Pterygornis
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Pterygornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Asia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Pterygornis is an extinct monotypic genus of enantiornithean dinosaur that lived in East Asia during the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch.
What we know
- Named by Wang et al., 2016.
- Fossils found in Asia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Pterygornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.