Sazavis prisca
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Sazavis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (93.5–89.3 Mya)
- Place
- Uzbekistan
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Alexornithidae
Sazavis was an enantiornithine bird from the Late Cretaceous. It might have been related to Nanantius and lived in what is now the Kyzyl Kum of Uzbekistan. There is a single species known to date, Sazavis prisca.
What we know
- Named by Nesov, 1989 vide Nesov & Jarkov, 1989.
- Fossils found in Uzbekistan.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Sazavis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.