The type specimen was described by paleontologist Xu Xing and colleagues in a paper accepted to the Chinese Science Bulletin in November of 2008, to be published in print in early 2009. The specimen consists of an articulated skeleton missing only the skull, part of the tail, and the right forelimb. The authors estimated that a complete individual would be 34 cm in length (13.3 in) and weigh only 110 g, making it the smallest known non-avian dinosaur. (See also Dinosaur size). The fossil was recovered from the Yaolugou locality, Jianchang County, western Liaoning, China. The deposits are lake sediment, and are of uncertain age. They may date to the Cretaceous or Jurassic periods.
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| - The type specimen was described by paleontologist Xu Xing and colleagues in a paper accepted to the Chinese Science Bulletin in November of 2008, to be published in print in early 2009. The specimen consists of an articulated skeleton missing only the skull, part of the tail, and the right forelimb. The authors estimated that a complete individual would be 34 cm in length (13.3 in) and weigh only 110 g, making it the smallest known non-avian dinosaur. (See also Dinosaur size). The fossil was recovered from the Yaolugou locality, Jianchang County, western Liaoning, China. The deposits are lake sediment, and are of uncertain age. They may date to the Cretaceous or Jurassic periods.
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| - Anchiornis (Xu et al., 2009)
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| - A. huxleyi (Xu et al., 2009)
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| - The type specimen was described by paleontologist Xu Xing and colleagues in a paper accepted to the Chinese Science Bulletin in November of 2008, to be published in print in early 2009. The specimen consists of an articulated skeleton missing only the skull, part of the tail, and the right forelimb. The authors estimated that a complete individual would be 34 cm in length (13.3 in) and weigh only 110 g, making it the smallest known non-avian dinosaur. (See also Dinosaur size). The fossil was recovered from the Yaolugou locality, Jianchang County, western Liaoning, China. The deposits are lake sediment, and are of uncertain age. They may date to the Cretaceous or Jurassic periods.
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