Sinocalliopteryx
Sinocalliopteryx
- Pronunciation:
- sie-no-kall-ee-op-ter-iks
- Name meaning:
- 'Chinese beautiful feather'
© Andrey Atuchin
- Type of dinosaur:
- small theropod
- Length:
- 2.37m
- Diet:
- carnivorous
- When it lived:
- Early Cretaceous, 125 million years ago
- Found in:
- China
Sinocalliopteryx is known from a complete skeleton with preserved filamentous integumentary structures (hair-like 'protofeathers'). Part of the leg of a dromaeosaurid (a small, fast-moving dinosaur that walked on 2 legs) and also some gastroliths (stomach stones) were found in its abdomen.
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Saurischia
- Named by:
- Ji, Ji, Lü and Yuan (2007)
- Type species:
- gigas
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