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| More Dinosaur Fact Sheets | EnchantedLearning.com Sinornithoides Fact Sheet |
Dinosaur/Paleontology Dictionary |
| NAME: | Meaning - Sinornithoides means "Chinese bird form" Pronounced - sy-NOR-nith-OY-deez Named By - D. A. Russell and Dong Zhiming When Named - 1994 |
| DIET: | Omnivore (it ate meat and plants, including mammals, smaller dinosaurs, insects, and some plant material) |
| SIZE: | Length - 3.6 ft (1.1 m) long Height - 18 inches (45 cm) tall at the hips Weight - 12 pounds (5.5 kg) |
| WHEN IT LIVED: | Middle Cretaceous period, about 110 to 100 million years ago |
| WHERE IT LIVED: | Fossils have been found in the Ordos Basin, Inner Mongolia, China, Asia. |
| FOSSILS: | An almost complete fossil was found. |
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| INTERESTING FACTS: |
This turkey-sized dinosaur had very long legs and was a fast runner. Sinornithoides was a very intelligent dinosaur (it had a relatively big brain). |
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