Yuornis junchangi
"Henan bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yuornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–66 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Yuornis (meaning “Henan bird”, after the Chinese one-character abbreviation for Henan, ()) is an extinct genus of enantiornithean bird known from the Late Cretaceous of Henan, China. It contains one species, Yuornis junchangi, named after Lü Junchang.
What we know
- Named by Xu et al., 2021.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Yuornis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.