Epidexipteryx
Epidexipteryx hui
Epidexipteryx is a genus of small maniraptoran dinosaurs, known from one fossil specimen in the collection of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. Epidexipteryx represents the earliest known example of ornamental feathers in the fossil record.
- Family
- Scansoriopterygidae
- Order
- Saurischia
- Period
- Jurassic (160 Ma)
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- 0.25 m
- Weight
- 0.16 kg
- Type locality
- Inner Mongolia, China
- Holotype
- IVPP V15471
- PBDB
- txn:137496