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Sinornithosaurus
Sinornithosaurus (derived from a combination of Latin and Greek, meaning 'Chinese bird-lizard') is a genus of feathered dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the early ...
Sinornithomimus
Sinornithomimus is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur found in 1997, in the early Late Cretaceous strata of the Ulansuhai Formation located at Alshanzuo Banner ...
Microraptoria
Genera Cryptovolans Graciliraptor Hesperonychus Microraptor Shanag? Sinornithosaurus Tianyuraptor? Synonyms; Microraptorinae Senter et al., 2004
Microraptor
Microraptor (Greek, mikros, mikros: "small"; Latin, raptor: "one who seizes") is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. Numerous well-preserved ...
Buitreraptor
However, there are relatives like Microraptor and Sinornithosaurus, of which fossils with preserved feathers are known. Since its close relatives had feathers, it is ...
Sinosauropteryx
Sinosauropteryx (meaning "Chinese reptilian wing", in Chinese Zhong Hua Long Niao : zhonghua longniao) was the first genus of dinosaur outside of Avialae (birds and their ...
Sinocalliopteryx
Sinocalliopteryx (meaning 'Chinese beautiful feather') is a genus of carnivorous compsognathid theropod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China ...
Shanag
Shanag bears a strong resemblance to basal Chinese dromaeosaurids such as Microraptor and Sinornithosaurus, suggesting a close similarity between the fauna of the Oosh ...
Tapejara (pterosaur)
Tapejara (from a Tupi word meaning "the old being") is a genus of Brazilian pterosaur from the Cretaceous Period (Santana Formation, dating to about 108 Ma ago ...
Barremian
The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale (or a chronostratigraphic stage ... Changchengornis. Liaoning, China: Microraptor. Liaoning, China: Sinornithosaurus
Dinosaurs Alive!
Dinosaurs Alive! is a 2007 IMAX documentary produced by Giant Screen Films about various dinosaurs that inhabited the Earth between 251 and 65 Ma. The documentary ...
Anchiornis
Two types of simpler, downy (plumaceous) feathers covered the rest of the body, as in Sinornithosaurus. Long downy feathers covered almost the entire head and neck, torso ...
Planet Dinosaur
A Sinornithosaurus attacks it, and after a brief chase the Microraptor manages a lucky escape. The Sinornithosaurus is then shown hunting a Jeholosaurus and its three young ...
Shuvuuia
Shuvuuia is a genus of bird-like theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of Mongolia. It is a member of the family Alvarezsauridae, small coelurosaurian ...
NGMC 91
Ji, along with another team of scientists, further emphasized this similarity in a 2002 paper, in which they formally referred the specimen to Sinornithosaurus, though ...
Dromaeosauridae
Comparisons between the scleral rings of several dromaeosaurids (Microraptor, Sinornithosaurus, and Velociraptor) and modern birds and reptiles indicate that some ...
Venom
Sinornithosaurus, a genus of feathered dromaeosaurid dinosaur, may have had a venomous bite. This hypothesis is still being disputed. The theropod Dilophosaurus is commonly ...
Eosipterus
Eosipterus is an extinct genus of pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning, China. The genus was named in 1997 by Ji Shu'an and Ji Qiang. The type species is ...
Feather
Branched feathers with ranchis, barbs, and barbules were discovered in many members including Sinornithosaurus millenii, a dromaeosaurid found in the Yixian formation ...
Caudipteryx
The specific region in which Caudipteryx lived was home to the other feathered dinosaurs Dilong and Sinornithosaurus. Implications
Pyroraptor
Scientists speculate that Pyroraptor was covered in feathers, as many of its relatives, like Microraptor and Sinornithosaurus, were feathered. References
Eomaia
Eomaia ('dawn mother') is an extinct fossil mammal, discovered in rocks that were found in the Yixian Formation, Liaoning Province, China, and dated to the Barremian ...
Origin of birds
Fossil cast of NGMC 91, a probable specimen of Sinornithosaurus. Skeleton. Because feathers are often associated with birds, feathered dinosaurs ...
Repenomamus
R. giganticus is larger than a number of species of feathered dinosaurs also from the same rock formation in China, including Sinornithosaurus, Caudipteryx and Mei.
Feathered dinosaur
Sinornithosaurus haoiana (2004) Pedopenna daohugouensis (2005; possibly avialan; Jinfengopteryx elegans (2005) Juravenator starki (2006) Sinocalliopteryx gigas (2007) Velociraptor ...
Dinosaur colour
Dr. Mike Benton from University of Bristol, in 2010, analyzed remains of Sinosauropteryx, Confuciusornis, Caudipteryx, and Sinornithosaurus from the Yixian, and also found ...
Xu Xing (paleontologist)
Sinornithosaurus; 1999. Valid taxon. Wang Xiaolin; Wu Xiao-Chun; Sinovenator; 2002. Valid taxon. Mark Norell; Peter Makovicky; Wang Xiaolin; Wu Xiao-Chun; Sinusonasus
Hesperonychus
... it was unlikely for Hesperonychus to exhibit four wings or gliding behavior as in Microraptor, and speculated that it was more likely to be similar to Sinornithosaurus ...
List of venomous animals
Scientists preposed that Sinornithosaurus has a venomous bite, but recent evidence suggests otherwise. Fish. There are at least 1,200 species of venomous fish, and they ...
Venomous mammals
However, some birds are poisonous to eat or touch, and Sinornithosaurus, a dinosaur related to birds, may have had a venomous bite. There are only a few species of ...
Toxic birds
Sinornithosaurus, a dinosaur related to birds, may have had a venomous bite. See also. List of poisonous animals; Poisonous Amphibians; List of venomous animals
List of feathered dinosaurs
NGMC 91, "Dave". First thought to be from Sinornithosaurus, they are actually indeterminate theropod remains
Graciliraptor
... has been found in the lowest portions of the Yixian Formation, the Lujiatun Member, below the rocks where similar early dromaeosaurids (such as Sinornithosaurus and ...
National Geographic Dinosaurs
Sinornithosaurus (mentioned) Sinosauropteryx; Spinosaurus (mentioned) Stegosaurus; Struthiomimus; Styracosaurus; Tarbosaurus (mentioned) Tenontosaurus; Thecodontosaurus (mentioned)
List of apex predators
Sinornithosaurus; Sinraptor; Spinosaurus; Suchomimus; Szechuanosaurus; Tarascosaurus; Tarbosaurus; Torvosaurus; Troodon; Tsaagan; Tyrannosaurus; Utahraptor; Velociraptor
Pneumatoraptor
The bone is small, indicating that the animal was only about half the size of the related Sinornithosaurus or 0.73 m (2.2 ft). The shoulder girdle is L-shaped, showing ...
Ornithomimus
O. edmontonicus (formerly Dromiceiomimus) skeleton, with Sinornithosaurus model, at the Canadian Museum of Nature
Richard Prum
Xu, X., H. H. Zhou, and R. O. Prum (2001), "Branched integumental structures in Sinornithosaurus and the origin of feathers", Nature 410 (6825): 200 204, doi PMID; Matthew P ...
Feathered Dinosaurs of China
Sinornithosaurus; Eosipterus; Dendrorhynchoides; Unidentified Striped Fish (seen dead and being squabbled over by the 2 Pterosaurs) Confuciusornis; Caudipteryx
Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae (or tyrannosaurids, meaning "tyrant lizards") is a family of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs which comprises two subfamilies containing up to six ...
Avifilopluma
These included what they considered to be non-avian dinosaurs such as Sinornithosaurus, Archaeopteryx, and the enantiornithines, all of which had true feathers.
Tyrannosauroidea
Tyrannosauroidea (meaning 'tyrant lizard forms') is a superfamily (or clade) of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs that includes the family Tyrannosauridae as well as ...
Dinosaur classification
Dromaeosauridae (Microraptor zhaoianus + Sinornithosaurus millenii + V. mongoliensis) Avialae (Archaeopteryx + Neornithes) Ornithischia (Iguanodon/Triceratops > Cetiosaurus/ ...
Liaoning
Other notable discoveries have been an intact embryo of a pterosaur, Repenomamus robustus a cat-sized mammal who ate dinosaurs, and Sinornithosaurus millenii, nicknamed ...
List of dinosaurs
Sinornithosaurus; Sinosauropteryx; Sinosaurus; Sinotyrannus; Sinovenator; Sinraptor; Sinucerasaurus junior synonym of Sinusonasus; Sinusonasus

 

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