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Caudipteryx
Caudipteryx was a small dinosaur that lived in the early
Cretaceous period,
about 125 million years ago.
Fossils
of the animal were first discovered in
China
during the late 1990s.
Caudipteryx was about3½ feet (1 meters) long, and had a mixture of
bird-like and reptile-like features. The bones of its hand, with a reduced
third finger, resembled those of birds, it had a shortened tail, like birds,
teeth like those of primitive birds, possibly a reversed first toe, like that of birds,
as well as over all body proportions which resembled those of modern flightless birds.
Additionally, Caudipteryx is known to have had long feathers on its forearms and tail,
and short downy feathers on its body.
Despite having a number of bird-like features, Caudipteryx is not thought to have
been capable of flight - instead, it is thought to have been a fast runner.
As far as diet is concerned, it is generally thought to have been an omnivore - the
presence of gastroliths (stones that were swallowed to help digest tough plant matter)
in at least two specimens suggest that plant material did form a significant part of
its diet.
Caudipteryx was an omnivore (ate meat and plants) that lived about 125 million years ago
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Caudipteryx Facts
Here is a summary of some of the key facts about Caudipteryx:
- Caudipteryx was a genus of dinosaur.
- "Caudipteryx" means "tail feather".
- Caudipteryx was a member of the Saurischia ("lizard-hipped") order of dinosaurs. What this means, is that although Caudipteryx was not closely related to lizards, it did have similarly shaped pelvic bones.
- Caudipteryx was a Theropod - a member of a group of related bipedal dinosaurs that included the ancestors of birds (although Caudipteryx was not itself an ancestor of birds).
- Caudipteryx lived about 125 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period.
- Caudipteryx lived in China.
- Caudipteryx was a omnivore (ate both meat and plants).
- Caudipteryx is thought to have swallowed stones which would have been used to help grind up food, especially tough plant material (some modern birds do the same thing). Such stones ("gastroliths") have been found in at least two specimens of Caudipteryx.
- Caudipteryx was about 3½ feet (1 meters) long.
Caudipteryx Toys
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For over 25 years, Safari Ltd has been proud to provide this premier line of scale model, dinosaur collectibles. These award winning dinosaur replicas are authenticated by the paleontologists of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, who houses the largest collection of dinosaur fossils in the world. Each Carnegie dinosaur can have up to 25 steps of hand painting to ensure the highest quality in the world marketplace. The scale of these dinos are either 1:20 or 1:40. Detailed educational information in 5 languages are provided with each replica. All our products are phthalate-free and thoroughly safety tested to safeguard your child's health. Safari Ltd takes pride in providing breathtaking, innovative and value priced figures for now over 3 generations. Each January, Safari Ltd introduces 2 new Carnegie models to encourage the collectibility of such an intriguing line. |
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Caudipteryx Books
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By Stephen Penner
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A dinosaur from the Triassic Period accidentally transports itself to Cretaceous China, a world filled with colorfully feathered dinosaurs. Will Prof. Barrister's crazy feather-fossil-color theory be enough to save the time-trapped dino? |
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This very strange dinosaur had feathers all over its body. It might prove that dinosaurs are related to modern birds. |
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Fuente: Wikipedia. Páginas: 27. Capítulos: Velociraptor, Sinosauropteryx, Dinosaurios con plumas, Caudipteryx, Microraptor, Epidendrosaurus, Rahonavis, Anchiornis, Sinocalliopteryx, Sinornithosaurus, Scansoriopteryx, Cryptovolans, Beipiaosaurus, Pedopenna, Dilong paradoxus, Shuvuuia, Jinfengopteryx, Protarchaeopteryx, Alvarezsaurus, Yixianosaurus. Extracto: Velociraptor (lat. "ladrón veloz"), en castellano velocirráptor, es un género de dinosaurios terópodos dromeosáuridos que vivieron durante el Campaniano, hacia finales del período Cretácico, hace unos 70 a 65 millones de años. Si bien hay sólo una especie reconocida, V. mongoliensis, otras han sido nominadas en el pasado. Se han hallado fósiles de esta especie en Asia Central, en Mongolia y China. Aunque más pequeño que otros dromeosáuridos como el deinonico y el aquilobator, el velocirráptor tenía muchos rasgos anatómicos similares a ellos. Fue un carnívoro bípedo, con una cola larga y rígida, y tres garras, una alargada y curva en cada pata, la cual usaba para matar a sus presas. A diferencia de otros dromeosáuridos el velocirráptor poseía un cráneo bajo y alargado, y un hocico chato, dirigido hacia arriba. Poseía patas traseras de gran longitud, lo que expresa (al igual que el nombre) su aparente gran velocidad. Debido a su destacada aparición en la novela de Michael Crichton Parque jurásico, el Velociraptor (comúnmente apodado "raptor") es uno de los géneros de dinosaurios más conocidos por el público general. También es bien conocido por los paleontólogos, con no menos de una docena de esqueletos fósiles recobrados - la mayor cantidad descubierta de un dromaeosáurido. Un espécimen particularmente famoso es el que muestra a un Velociraptor enzarzado en una batalla con un Protoceratops. El velocirráptor comparado en tamaño con un humano.Para ser un dromeosáurido el velocirráptor era relativamente pequeño, los adultos alcanzaban una longitud de 1,8 m, y aproximadamente 0,5 metros de altura a la cadera, pesa... |
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Fuente: Wikipedia. Páginas: 148. Capítulos: Tarbosaurus, Psittacosaurus, Velociraptor, Sinosauropteryx, Alioramus, Protoceratops, Saurolophus, Caudipteryx, Microraptor, Dilophosaurus, Antarctosaurus, Epidendrosaurus, Oviraptor, Chilantaisaurus, Anchiornis, Sinocalliopteryx, Sinornithosaurus, Altirhinus, Pinacosaurus, Mamenchisaurus, Scansoriopteryx, Tianyuraptor, Citipati, Therizinosaurus, Alectrosaurus, Deinocheirus, Mononykus, Opisthocoelicaudia, Gallimimus, Tianyulong, Mahakala, Agilisaurus, Anserimimus, Cryptovolans, Avimimus, Amurosaurus, Prenocephale, Alxasaurus, Omeisaurus, Gongbusaurus, Olorotitan, Beipiaosaurus, Pedopenna, Barsboldia, Dilong paradoxus, Shuvuuia, Abrosaurus, Shaochilong, Saichania, Bactrosaurus, Xiongguanlong, Lufengosaurus, Shanyangosaurus, Micropachycephalosaurus, Enigmosaurus, Harpymimus, Jinfengopteryx, Byronosaurus, Gigantoraptor, Hongshanosaurus, Monolophosaurus, Liaoceratops, Paluxysaurus, Sinornithomimus, Chiayusaurus, Bagaceratops, Archaeoceratops, Chaoyangsaurus, Huayangosaurus, Adasaurus, Archaeornithoides, Auroraceratops, Ingenia, Tarchia, Parvicursor, Talarurus, Microhadrosaurus, Wannanosaurus, Arstanosaurus, Euhelopus, Incisivosaurus, Shantungosaurus, Gigantspinosaurus, Sphaerotholus, Linhenykus, Elmisaurus, Shanxia, Liaoningosaurus, Tuojiangosaurus, Graciliraptor, Turanoceratops, Shamosaurus, Saurornithoides, Gyposaurus, Conchoraptor, Quaesitosaurus, Changchunsaurus, Albalophosaurus, Mandschurosaurus, Aralosaurus, Borogovia, Tsagantegia, Chungkingosaurus, Nemegtomaia, Gobisaurus, Sinocoelurus, Gobiceratops, Zhuchengtyrannus, Sinraptor, Nemegtosaurus, Siluosaurus, Erlikosaurus, Charonosaurus, Tsintaosaurus, Archaeornithomimus, Qiaowanlong, Neimongosaurus, Khaan, Gilmoreosaurus, Huanghetitan, Jeholosaurus, Nipponosaurus, Tatisaurus, Isanosaurus, Yimenosaurus, Protarchaeopteryx, Chialingosaurus, Kerberosaurus, Sonidosaurus, Tianzhenosaurus, Shunosaurus, Zhuchengceratops, Chinshakiangosaurus, Raptorex, Sahaliyania, Xuanhanosau... |
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By Alan Feduccia
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Examining and interpreting recent spectacular fossil discoveries in China, paleontologists have arrived at a prevailing view: there is now incontrovertible evidence that birds represent the last living dinosaur. But is this conclusion beyond dispute? In this book, evolutionary biologist Alan Feduccia provides the most comprehensive discussion yet of the avian and associated evidence found in China, then exposes the massive, unfounded speculation that has accompanied these discoveries and been published in the pages of prestigious scientific journals. Advocates of the current orthodoxy on bird origins have ignored contrary data, misinterpreted fossils, and used faulty reasoning, the author argues. He considers why and how the debate has become so polemical and makes a plea to refocus the discussion by “breaking away from methodological straitjackets and viewing the world of origins anew.” Drawing on a lifetime of study, he offers his own current understanding of the origin of birds and avian flight. (20110811) |
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By John Long
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Scientists have recovered more than a billion fossils, but no discovery has been more breath-taking than the fossils recently found in northern China, findings which prove that several families of dinosaurs had feathers, or feathery hair-like coverings, adorning their bodies.
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Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds presents the most recent work of renowned evolutionary scientist and dinosaur illustrator Gregory Paul. Dinosaurs of the Air synthesizes the growing body of evidence which suggests that modern-day birds have evolved from theropod dinosaurs of prehistoric times. Paul argues provocatively for the idea that the ancestor-descendant relationship between the dinosaurs and birds can on occasion be reversed, and that many dinosaurs were secondarily flightless descendants of creatures we would regard as birds. Controversial and comprehensive, Dinosaurs of the Air also offers new, firsthand interpretations of major fossils; a balanced, rewarding discussion of the ways we think flight may have evolved (comparing "ground up" and "trees down" scenarios); a close look at the famous urvogel Archaeopteryx, discussing what it can and cannot tell us about bird origins; and in-depth analyses of bird and theropod phylogenetics. Full of rich detail for the specialist but accessible to the intelligent lay reader, the book includes the author's own stunning illustrations and a technical appendix which provides information, for example, on body mass/wing dimension relationships and avian/dinosaurian metabolics. |
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Dinosaurs features stickers and facts about every kind of dinosaur imaginable, from towering T-rex to wily Compsognathus.
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