Outline: a typical theropod
Sinornithoides
"Chinese bird form"
- Lived
- 137 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Troodontidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Russell and Dong 1994
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
120 million years ago
Field notes
About Sinornithoides
What it was like
Sinornithoides was a small troodontid, a feathered theropod about the size of a chicken. Its only skeleton was found curled up, as if asleep, like a modern bird.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now China. It shared its world with the parrot-beaked Psittacosaurus.
How it was found
Russell and Dong named Sinornithoides in 1994, from a nearly complete skeleton.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Troodontidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: D. A. Russell and Z.-M. Dong. 1994. A nearly complete skeleton of a new troodontid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of the Ordos Basin, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30(10-11):2163-2173