Hexing

Field photograph to come

DV-0822Yixian Fm., China

Hexing

DV-0822 · type species Hexing qingyi

Lived
126 to 120 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet
Omnivore
Group
Theropods
Found in
China
Named by
Jin et al. 2012

Field notes

About Hexing

Hexing was an omnivorous theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 126 to 120 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Hexing, from China. Its fossils come from the Yixian Formation. It was named by Jin et al. in 2012.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

125 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Ornithomimosauria.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: L. Jin, J. Chen, and P. Godefroit. 2012. A new basal ornithomimosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation, northeast China. Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems