Yutyrannus Yutyrannus
"feathered tyrant"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yutyrannus 10 m (33 ft) long
6 people holding hands
- Length
- 10 m (33 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Proceratosauridae
Yutyrannus (meaning “feathered tyrant”) is a genus of proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid dinosaur which contains a single known species, Yutyrannus huali. This species lived during the early Cretaceous period in what is now northeastern China. Three fossils of Yutyrannus huali — all found in the rock beds of Liaoning Province — are the largest-known dinosaur specimens that preserve direct evidence of feathers.
What we know
- Named by Xu et al., 2012.
- Body length estimated at about 10 m.
- Fossils found in China.