Sinocalliopteryx Sinocalliopteryx
"Chinese beautiful feather"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Sinocalliopteryx 2.4 m (7.8 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 2.4 m (7.8 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125.46 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Compsognathidae
Sinocalliopteryx (meaning ‘Chinese beautiful feather’) is a genus of carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China (Jianshangou Beds, dating to 124.6 Ma). While similar to the related Huaxiagnathus, Sinocalliopteryx were larger. In 2007, the type specimen was the largest known compsognathid exemplar, at 2.37 m in length. In 2012, an even larger specimen was reported.
What we know
- Named by Ji et al., 2007.
- Body length estimated at about 2.37 m.
- Fossils found in China.