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🦴 Known fossil material
Parts found as fossils
- Skull
- Shoulder girdle and chest
- 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.
Sinosauropteryx
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 Sinosauropteryx (Yixian), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.
Sinovenator
Sinornithosaurus
Beipiaosaurus
Bolong
Caudipteryx
Dilong
Hongshanornis
Jeholosaurus
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
- Sinosauropterygidae
- When it lived
- 119.57–125.77 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Barremian – Aptian
- Named by
- Ji and Ji, 1996
- Fossil occurrences
- 4 sites
Countries with fossils
- China
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata