Bird
Kelenken
Kelenken guillermoi is known for an enormous skull with a deep hooked beak.
Kelenken guillermoi is known for an enormous skull with a deep hooked beak. It was a flightless member of the terror-bird family.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Kelenken at a glance
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Its teeth and feeding structures are interpreted as adapted to taking animal prey.
- When it lived
- Middle Miocene
- Group
- Phorusrhacidae
- Terror birds
Beyond the game
The real Kelenken
Kelenken guillermoi is known for an enormous skull with a deep hooked beak. It was a flightless member of the terror-bird family.
The preserved material documents an exceptionally large hooked beak. Complete-body proportions are reconstructed with the help of other members of the terror-bird family.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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