Xunmenglong
Name:
Xunmenglong
(swift dragon).
Phonetic: Zun-meng-long.
Named By: Lida Xing, Tetsuto Miyashita, Donghao
Wang, Kechung Niu & Philip J. Currie - 2019.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Compsognathidae.
Species: X. yingliangis
(type).
Diet: Carnivore/Insectivore.
Size: Roughly estimated at about 50 centimetres
long.
Known locations: China, Hubei province -
Huajiying Formation.
Time period: Early Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Xunmenglong
is a genus of compsognathid dinosaur that lived in China during the
early Cretaceous. Xunmenglong seems to have
been a very small
dinosaur, small even for a compsognathid. As such, Xunmenglong
was probably a small predator, feeding upon insects and very small
vertebrates.
Further reading
- A new compsognathid theropod dinosaur from the oldest assemblage of
the Jehol Biota in the Lower Cretaceous Huajiying Formation,
northeastern China. - Cretaceous Research. - Lida Xing,
Tetsuto Miyashita, Donghao Wang, Kechung Niu & Philip
J. Currie - 2019.
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