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China’s Feathered Dinosaurs
Sinosauropteryx
(adult specimen)
(Sine-oh-sore-OP-ter-iks = “Chinese dragon wing”)
120 to 150 million years before present
Yixian Formation
Sihetun, Liaoning Province,
China National Geological Museum of China
animal was discovered in 1997. The fossil contains the remains of the creature’s last meal,
the jawbones of an early mammal.