Huadanosaurus sinensis Huadanosaurus
"lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Huadanosaurus 1 m (3.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (124.12 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Sinosauropterygidae
Huadanosaurus is an extinct genus of compsognathid-like theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, H. sinensis, known from a nearly complete skeleton preserving feather-like structures.
What we know
- Named by Qiu et al., 2025.
- Body length estimated at about 1 m.
- Fossils found in China.