Unenlagia Unenlagia
"half-bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Unenlagia 3.5 m (11.5 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (89 Mya)
- Place
- South America
- Food
- Carnivore
Unenlagia (meaning “half-bird” in Latinized Mapudungun) is a genus of unenlagiine theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period. The genus Unenlagia has been assigned two species: U. comahuensis, the type species described by Novas and Puerta in 1997, and U. paynemili, described by Calvo et al. in 2004.
What we know
- Named by Novas & Puerta, 1997.
- Body length estimated at about 3.5 m.
- Fossils found in South America.