Hexing qingyi

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Hexing 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (125 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.

Hexing is an extinct genus of basal ornithomimosaurian dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern China. It contains a single species, Hexing qingyi.

What we know

  • Named by Jin, Chen & Godefroit, 2012.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

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