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 China’s Feathered Dinosaurs Exhibition

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

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 This much larger Sinosauropteryx specimen of what appears to be a more mature or adult
animal was discovered in 1997. The fossil contains the remains of the creature’s last meal,
the jawbones of an early mammal.


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