Kulindadromeus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kulindadromeus 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 1.5 m (4.9 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (168.3–166.1 Mya)
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Kulindadromeus is a genus of basal neornithischian dinosaur that lived during the Middle Jurassic. The first Kulindadromeus fossil was found in Russia. Its feather-like integument is evidence for protofeathers being basal to Ornithischia and possibly Dinosauria as a whole, rather than just to Coelurosauria, as previously suspected.
What we know
- Named by Godefroit et al., 2014.
- Body length estimated at about 1.5 m.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Kulindadromeus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.