Caudipteryx

Caudipteryx (which means "tail feather") is a genus of peacock-sized theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Aptian age of the early Cretaceous Period (about 124.6 million years ago). They were feathered and remarkably birdlike in their overall appearance.[1] Two species have been described; C. zoui (the type species), in 1998,[1] and C. dongi, in 2000.[2]
Caudipteryx fossils were first discovered in the Yixian Formation of the Sihetun area of Liaoning Province, northeastern China in 1997.
Category:Dinosaurs
Category:Animals
Category:Creatures
Category:Reptiles
Category:Oviraptorosaurs
Category:Feathered dinosaurs
Category:Early cretaceous dinosaurs of asia
Category:Fossils of china
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1998
Category:Taxa named by Philip J. Currie
Category:Taxa named by Mark Norell
Category:Yixian fauna