Migmanychion laiyang
"claw mixture"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Migmanychion 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (121 Mya)
- Place
- China · Mongolia
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Migmanychion (meaning “claw mixture”) is an extinct genus of maniraptoran theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Longjiang Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, M. laiyang, known from an incomplete left forelimb.
What we know
- Named by Wang et al., 2023.
- Fossils found in China and Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Migmanychion — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.