Mei
Mei long
Mei (from Chinese: 寐; pinyin: mèi; lit. 'sleepy') is a genus of duck-sized troodontid dinosaur first unearthed by paleontologists from the Yixian Formation in Liaoning, China in 2004. Mei lived during the Early Cretaceous period. The binomial name of its only species, Mei long (Chinese 寐 mèi and 龍 lóng), means sleeping dragon.
- Family
- Troodontidae
- Order
- Saurischia
- Period
- Cretaceous (125 Ma)
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- 0.53 m
- Weight
- 0.2 kg
- Type locality
- Liaoning, China
- Holotype
- IVPP V12733
- PBDB
- txn:68249