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Changmiania

"eternal sleep"

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Changmiania 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Changmiania
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Thescelosauridae

Changmiania (from the Chinese “changmian”, meaning “eternal sleep”) is a genus of basal ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous. It contains a single species, Changmiania liaoningensis.

What we know

  • Named by Yang et al., 2020.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Changmiania — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.