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family · 1 represented species

Sinosauropterygidae

Sinosauropterygidae is a proposed family of small, early-diverging coelurosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota.

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Sinosauropterygidae

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Representative silhouette for Sinosauropterygidae
1Direct child groups
1Countries represented
125–122 MaDataset range

Branch structure

Direct branches in this dataset

genus

Sinosauropteryx

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Representative taxa

Dinosaurs in this branch

Evidence-based side-view colour reconstruction of Sinosauropteryx primaArt by Fiann M. Smithwick et al. · CC BY-SA 4.0

Cretaceous

Sinosauropteryx prima

A small Jehol coelurosaur whose articulated fossils preserve simple filamentous feathers, gut contents and a striped, countershaded colour pattern.

carnivore~1.1 m

Distribution

Geographic record

China

Country-level summary of represented seed records, not a complete range map.

Sources

Further reading

Introduction to the DinosauriaDinosaur Paleobiology