Sinornithoides
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| 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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