Xorazmortyx turkestanensis xo-ra-ZMO-rty
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Xorazmortyx 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (41–37.7 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Paraortygidae
Xorazmortyx is a paraortygidae known from the Cretaceous period, of uncertain origin. Most of what’s published comes from a small number of specimens, and the fuller picture of how it lived is still being worked out.
What we know
- Originally named by Zelenkov and Panteleyev 2019.