Sinornithoides Sinornithoides
"Chinese bird form"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Sinornithoides 1 m (3.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (113 Mya)
- Place
- China · Mongolia · India
- Food
- Carnivore
Sinornithoides (meaning “Chinese bird form”) is a genus of troodontid theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Early Cretaceous (Aptian or Albian stage, around 113 million years ago) of Inner Mongolia, China. It contains only a single species, S. youngi. Sinornithoides measured approximately 1 m long, and probably ate invertebrates and other small prey.
What we know
- Named by Russell & Dong, 1993.
- Body length estimated at about 1 m.
- Fossils found in China and Mongolia.