Vescornis hebeiensis
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Vescornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (122 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Vescornis is a genus of enantiornithine bird. One species is named, V. hebeiensis. The holotype fossil is in the collection of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Its catalog number is CAGS 130722. The fossil was found in Early Cretaceous rocks first attributed to the Yixian Formation, Senjitu, Fengning County, Hebei Province, China. However, later study of area geology showed that these rocks actually belong to the Huajiying Formation.
Vescornis was described in detail by Zhang et al. in 2004.
What we know
- Named by Zhang et al., 2004.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Vescornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.