Yuornis junchangi Yuornis
"Henan bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yuornis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–66 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.