Xiangornis shenmi
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Xiangornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Xiangornis is an enantiornithean bird from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Western Liaoning, China.
In 2005, a bird fossil was discovered near Dapingfang in Chaoyang, in Western Liaoning.
What we know
- Named by Hu et al., 2012.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Xiangornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.