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Sinosauropterygidae

Huadanosaurus sinensis

"lizard"

Generic theropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Huadanosaurus 1 m (3.3 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic theropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Huadanosaurus
Length
1 m (3.3 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (124.12 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Carnivore
Clade
Sinosauropterygidae
Huadanosaurus reconstruction by Ddinodan
Reconstruction · Ddinodan (CC-BY)

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.

What we guess

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