Xinjiangovenator
"Xinjiang hunter"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Xinjiangovenator 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (163–145 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Xinjiangovenator (meaning “Xinjiang hunter”) is a genus of coelurosaurian dinosaurs, possibly part of the group Maniraptora, which lived in the Lianmuqin Formation of the Tugulu Group of China, dated to the Early Cretaceous period, sometime between the Valanginian and Albian stages.
What we know
- Named by Rauhut & Xu, 2005.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Xinjiangovenator — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.