Sinosauropterygidae
family · Ji and Ji 1996 · accepted · extinct
5 descendant taxa · 5 fossil sites · 1 formations · 1 countries
Lived when
Cretaceous
125.77–119.57 million years ago
Found where
1 country
1 rock formations
Fossil record
5 sites
17 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 6 million years, from 125.77 to 119.57 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 119.57 million years old — that is roughly 399 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Sinosauropterygidae was named in 1996 (Ji and Ji 1996) — 30 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 1 country and 1 named rock formations.
- 17 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 5 named taxa, including 3 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).