Xiyunykus
"western claw"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Xiyunykus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (126–120 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Xiyunykus (meaning “western claw”; “xiyu” is Mandarin for “west” and refers to Western China where it was found) is a genus of alvarezsauroid theropod from the Early Cretaceous-aged Tugulu Group of what is now China. Only one species has been described, Xiyunykus pengi.
What we know
- Named by Xu et al., 2018.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Xiyunykus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.