Image by Jaime A. Headden (User:Qilong) · CC BY 3.0 · View on Wikimedia Commons
🦴 Known fossil material
Parts found as fossils
- Arm or front leg
- Hind leg
Converted automatically from the Paleobiology Database's specimen records and not checked by a person. Those records mostly list measured limb bones and skulls, so this shows only some of the bones that have been found.
Coloured areas have at least one bone in PBDB's specimen records. Faint areas are not in those records, which does not mean they have not been found. The outline is a general shape for its group, not this dinosaur's real body.
Similicaudipteryx
There is no write-up for this dinosaur yet, but the scientific data below is complete.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Similicaudipteryx (Jiufotang), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.
Microraptor
Cathayornis
Longipteryx
Bohaiornis
Dapingfangornis
Zhouornis
Alethoalaornis
Archaeovolans
Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.
Scientific details
- Classification
- Theropod (two-legged predators)
- Family
- Caudipterygidae
- When it lived
- 113.2–121.4 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Aptian
- Named by
- He et al., 2008
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- China
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata