Pedopenna

Field photograph to come

DV-0586Tiaojishan Fm., China

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

1 find

165 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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