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Xunmenglong
Carnivore
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 Xunmenglong (Huajiying), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.
Protopteryx
Cretaceous
Archaeornithura
Cretaceous
Cruralispennia
Cretaceous
Eopengornis
Cretaceous
Jinfengopteryx
Cretaceous
Orienantius
Cretaceous
Carnivore
Paraprotopteryx
Cretaceous
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
- Compsognathidae
- When it lived
- 125.77–132.6 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Hauterivian
- Named by
- Xing et al., 2020
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- China
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata