Lufengosaurus

Mesembriornis milneedwardsi was the largest species of Mesembriornis, a phorusrhacid terror bird from Pliocene South America. Standing ~1.8m tall, it was one of the last representatives of the terror bird lineage before the Great American Interchange brought placental carnivores to South America.

Time Period

Jurassic Early Mesozoic Era

Lufengosaurus lived during the Jurassic Early period of the Mesozoic Era, approximately 201.4 to 174.7 million years ago.

After the Triassic-Jurassic extinction, dinosaurs rapidly diversified and became the dominant land vertebrates. Early sauropods and theropods began to evolve larger body sizes.