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Bookmark or Share- Feathered dinosaur | Description, Size, & Facts | BritannicaIt was a skeleton of a small carnivorous dinosaur from the Liaoning beds of China. Called Sinosauropteryx, the fossil was dated to the Early Cretaceous Epoch (about 126 million years ago). It was exceptional because its head, neck, back, and tail were covered with a thick, short “pelage” of dark filaments.
- Sinosauropteryx | Dinosaurs - Pictures and FactsAbout Sinosauropteryx. Sinosauropteryx is a dinosaur that was first discovered by Chinese farmer Li Yumin in the summer of 1996 in Sihetun, Liaoning Province, China. This dinosaur lived during the early Cretaceous period – about 121 to 135 million years ago.
- The evolution of the feather: Sinosauropteryx, life, death and ...Among the spectacular dinosaur fossils reported from the Jehol Group of northeastern China is the most celebrated, Sinosauropteryx, which continues to excite interest in questions concerning feather origins—most recently with alleged identifications of melanosomes and colour in its integumental structures, which proved unfounded.
- Sinosauropteryx - WikipediaSinosauropteryx (meaning "Chinese reptilian wing", simplified Chinese: 中华龙鸟; traditional Chinese: 中華龍鳥; pinyin: Zhōnghuá lóng niǎo; lit. 'Chinese dragon bird') is a compsognathid dinosaur. Described in 1996, it was the first dinosaur taxon outside of Avialae (birds and their immediate relatives) to be found with evidence of ...
- Sinosauropteryx | dinosaur | BritannicaIn feathered dinosaur: Discoveries in the Liaoning deposits. Called Sinosauropteryx, the fossil was dated to the Early Cretaceous Epoch (about 126 million years ago). It was exceptional because its head, neck, back, and tail were covered with a thick, short “pelage” of dark filaments.
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