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Hollanda

Say it: hol-LAN-dah
Name means: “Hollanda means 'from Holland' and luceria means 'light' or 'bright' in Latin”4
Ate: MeatEarly birdsLate Cretaceous

Hollanda was a speedy, turkey-sized bird that lived in the Gobi Desert during the Late Cretaceous. It had long legs and ran fast like a modern roadrunner, chasing insects and small animals.1

Lived
84 to 72 million years ago4
Late Cretaceous
Fossils found in
Khermeen Tsav, Gobi Desert, Mongolia4
Food
Meat41
Length
0.3 to 0.5 m4
estimated from hindlimb bones
Weight
0.5 kg to 1.5 kg4
Height
0.3 to 0.5 m4
at the hips

When did it live?

Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

Hollanda about 0.5 m longA house cat about 0.5 mA dog about 1 mA bicycle about 1.8 m

How tall was it?

A house catabout 0.3 mHollandaabout 0.5 m tallA dogabout 0.6 m🚊A doorabout 2 m

at the hips

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 12 bananas
as long as 3 bananas end to endlighter than a house catas heavy as 12 bananas

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Fun facts

1

Hollanda is known only from its hind leg bones, so scientists have to guess what the rest of its body looked like.1

2

Its foot had a special toe arrangement called anisodactyl, with the first toe turned sideways, which helped it run and perch.1

3

Hollanda lived about 83 to 72 million years ago, during the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous.4

4

Even though Hollanda was a fast runner on the ground, it evolved from ancestors that lived in trees.1

5

Hollanda is part of a group called Ornithuromorpha, which includes modern birds and their close relatives.4

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An AI-made picture of how Hollanda might have looked, made by a computer from what scientists know. It is a guess: the real animal may have looked different, and nobody knows its true colours.
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Most asked questions about Hollanda

?Was Hollanda a dinosaur?

Yes, Hollanda was a small bird-like dinosaur called an avialan theropod. It is not a modern bird but a close relative that lived in the Cretaceous period.24

?How big was Hollanda?

Hollanda was about the size of a turkey, with long legs. Scientists estimate it was roughly 60 to 80 centimetres (2 to 2.6 feet) tall, based on its leg bones.23

?What did Hollanda eat?

Hollanda was a ground-dwelling carnivore that ate insects and small animals. It likely chased its prey on foot, similar to a modern roadrunner.243

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Myth buster

Myth: Some people think Hollanda was a dinosaur like T. rex.

Truth: Hollanda was a bird, not a non-avian dinosaur. It is an avialan, which means it is more closely related to modern birds than to dinosaurs like T. rex.4

For dino experts

Scientific name
Hollanda
Named by
Bell et al. 20104
Group
Early birds
Family / clade
Ornithuromorpha4
Classification
Theropoda > Avialae4
Age of the rocks
84 to 72 million years (Campanian)4
Rock formations
Baruungoyot4
Countries
Mongolia4
Fossil records
1 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery
Hollanda was named in 2010 by Alyssa Bell and her team. The fossils were found in the Barun Goyot Formation at Khermeen Tsav in Mongolia.41
Still debated
Scientists are not sure about the full body shape of Hollanda because only its leg bones have been found.1

Where the facts come from

  1. Hollanda luceria - new terrestrial bird from the Late Cretaceous (dml.reptilis.net)
  2. Hollanda luceria (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. Description and ecologic analysis of Hollanda luceria, a Late Cretaceous bird from the Gobi Desert (Mongolia) (researchgate.net)
  4. Hollanda in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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