Jinfengopteryx elegans Jinfengopteryx
"feather"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jinfengopteryx 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (122 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
Jinfengopteryx (from Jinfeng, ‘golden phoenix’, the queen of birds in Chinese folklore, and pteryx, meaning ‘feather’) is a genus of maniraptoran dinosaur. It was found in the Qiaotou Member of the Huajiying Formation of Hebei Province, China, and is therefore of uncertain age. The Qiaotou Member may correlate with the more well-known Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation, and so probably dates to around 122 Ma (122 million years) ago.
What we know
- Named by Ji et al., 2005.
- Fossils found in China.