Tingmiatornis arctica Tingmiatornis
"bird that flies"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tingmiatornis 2.4 m (7.9 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 2.4 m (7.9 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- Canada
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Tingmiatornis (meaning “bird that flies”) is a genus of flighted and possibly diving ornithuran dinosaur from the High Arctic of Canada. The genus contains a single species, T. arctica, described in 2016, which lived during the Turonian epoch of the Cretaceous.
What we know
- Named by Bono et al., 2016.
- Body length estimated at about 2.4 m.
- Fossils found in Canada.