Dinosaur: Aurornis xui
| Length*: | 40 cm | 1.3 ft |
| Weight*: | 0.26 kg | 1 lb |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Middle Jurassic - Late Jurassic
Stage: Callovian-Oxfordian
Details
Status: valid/S > Anchiornis huxleyi
Autor: Godefroit et al.
Year: 2013
Area: Asia
Country: China
Region: Liaoning
Formation: Tiaojishan
Other
Material: Almost complete skeleton with skull.
References: Godefroit, Pascal; Cau, Andrea; Hu, Dong-Yu; Escuillié, François; Wu, Wenhao; Dyke, Gareth (2013). "A Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China resolves the early phylogenetic history of birds".
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