Tingmiatornis arctica
"bird that flies"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tingmiatornis 2.4 m (7.9 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 2.4 m (7.9 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- Canada
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Tingmiatornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.