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sharp-clawed runner
Scansoriopteryx
Say it like this: “san-SOH-ree-OP-tuh-riks”
Scansoriopteryx heilmanni
Scansoriopteryx ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Middle Jurassic. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Middle Jurassic (Bathonian · Callovian) · roughly 168.2 to 161.5 million years ago
- Named in
- 2002 · Czerkas, S. A.; Yuan, C.
- Hip height
- 0.1 m · 0 ft
- Length
- 0.5 m · 2 ft
- Weight
- 0 kg · 0 lb
- Found in
- China
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Scansoriopterygidae
The story in short
In 2002, S. A. Czerkas and C. Yuan published the name Scansoriopteryx. The name means “climbing wing.”
It lived in the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian · Callovian), roughly 168.2 to 161.5 million years ago. Finds come from China. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Scansoriopteryx at a length near 0.5 m, hips about 0.1 m high, and a body mass around 0 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Scansoriopterygidae, among the theropod dinosaurs.