Sinosauropteryx (meaning `Chinese reptilian wing`, {zh|s=中华龙鸟|p=Zhōnghuá lóng niǎo|l=China 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 feathers. It was covered with a coat of very simple filament-lik.....
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(from the article `dinosaur`) ...structures that covered the body, they have shed much light on the relationship between birds and Mesozoic dinosaurs. Such structures are now ... Recently, a closely related theropod dinosaur was discovered in China dating from the Early Cretaceous Period (144 million to 99 million years ago). ... [2 ...
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Sinosauropteryx A “Chinese dinosaur wing” from Early Cretaceous China. Its name is based on Greek “sinai” and Latin “sinae”, an oriental people, Chinese. This fossil was found in ancient lake sediments in Liaoning Province, northeastern China. Named by Chinese geologists Ji Qiang and Ji Shu’an in 1996.
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