Yatenavis ieujensis
"stone bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yatenavis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Yatenavis (meaning “stone bird”) is an extinct genus of enantiornithine bird from the Late Cretaceous Chorrillo Formation of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, Y. ieujensis, known from a partial humerus.
What we know
- Named by Herrera et al., 2022.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Yatenavis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.