Sinornithoides

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Sinornithoides
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Theropoda Infraorder: Coelurosauria (unranked) Deinonychosauria Family: Troodontidae Genus: Sinornithoides Species: S. youngi
Binomial name
Sinornithoides youngi Russell & Dong, 1993

Sinornithoides (meaning "Chinese Bird Form") was one of the smallest carnivorous dinosaurs ever, at 3 feet long. It lived in China, and ate small mammals and insects. Sinornithoides youngi, the type specimen, was described in 1993 by Russell and Dong. It lived during the Early Cretaceous. Sinornithoides was a troodontid theropod.

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• http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/troodontidae.htm