Outline: a typical theropod
Migmanychion
"mixed claw"
Type species Migmanychion laiyang
- Lived
- 121 to 120 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Wang et al. 2023
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
120 million years ago
Field notes
About Migmanychion
What it was like
Migmanychion was a small feathered theropod known from part of a front leg. Its arm shows a mix of features seen in different groups of bird-like dinosaurs.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now northeastern China. Its bones come from the Longjiang Formation, where the small feathered Daurlong also lived.
How it was found
Wang and colleagues named it in 2023. The type species is Migmanychion laiyang.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Maniraptora
Sources: WikidataNamed in: X. Wang, A. Cau, and Z. Wang, K. Yu, W. Wu, Y. Wang, Y. Liu. 2023. A new theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Longjiang Formation of Inner Mongolia (China). Cretaceous Research 151:105605