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sharp-clawed runner
Hexing
Say it like this: “huh-sheeng”
Hexing qingyi
Hexing ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago
- Named in
- 2012 · Jin, L.; Chen, J.; Godefroit, P.
- Hip height
- 0.3 m · 1 ft
- Length
- 1.2 m · 4 ft
- Weight
- 7 kg · 15 lb
- Found in
- China · Yixian
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Ornithomimosauria
The story in short
The genus Hexing dates to 2012, the year L. Jin and colleagues described it.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Barremian), roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Yixian Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Hexing at a length near 1.2 m, hips about 0.3 m high, and a body mass around 7 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Ornithomimosauria, among the theropod dinosaurs.