Xunmenglong yingliangis Xunmenglong
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Xunmenglong 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (130.7 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Compsognathidae
Xunmenglong (from ) is a genus of compsognathid theropod dinosaur from the Huajiying Formation of Hebei Province, China. The type and only species is Xunmenglong yinliangis. The holotype material consists of a pelvis, tail base and hindlimbs that had previously been part of a chimera containing three different animals. The animal is described as being the smallest known member of Compsognathidae, being about the size of the sub-adult Scipionyx holotype specimen, or approximately 50 cm in length.
What we know
- Named by Xing et al., 2020.
- Fossils found in China.