Dinosaur: Protarchaeopteryx robusta
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Length*: | 75 cm | 2.5 ft |
Weight*: | 1.8 kg | 4 lb |
Speed: | 40 km/h | 25 mph |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Late Barremian-Early Aptian
Details
Status: valid
Autor: Ji & Ji
Year: 1997
Area: Asia
Country: China
Region: Liaoning
Formation: Yixian
Other
Material: Large part of skeleton with skull fragments.
References: Ji and Ji, (1997). A Chinese archaeopterygian, Protarchaeopteryx gen. nov.
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