Pedopenna
Field photograph to come
Pedopenna
DV-0586 · type species Pedopenna daohugouensis
- Lived
- 165 to 162 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Xu and Zhang 2005
Field notes
About Pedopenna
Pedopenna was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Middle Jurassic, 165 to 162 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Pedopenna, from China. Its fossils come from the Tiaojishan Formation. It was named by Xu and Zhang in 2005.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
165 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Paraves.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: X. Xu and F. Zhang. 2005. A new maniraptoran dinosaur from China with long feathers on the metatarsus. Naturwissenschaften 92:173-177