Ambopteryx Ambopteryx
"both wing"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ambopteryx 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (163 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Scansoriopterygidae
Ambopteryx (meaning “both wing”) is a genus of scansoriopterygid dinosaur from the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic of China. It is the second dinosaur to be found with both feathers and bat-like membranous wings. Yi, the first such dinosaur, was described in 2015 and is the sister taxon to Ambopteryx. The holotype specimen is thought to be a sub-adult or adult. The specimen is estimated to have had a body length of 32 cm and a weight of 306 g. The genus includes one species, Ambopteryx longibrachium.
What we know
- Named by Wang et al., 2019.
- Fossils found in China.