What is Caudipteryx?
{{Taxobox | color = lightblue | name = ''Caudipteryx'' | image = Caudipteryx zoui - Untere Kreide - Liaoning-China.jpg | image_caption = ''Caudipteryx zoui'' | status = fossil | fossil_range = [[Lower Cretaceous]] 124.6 mya | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Sauropsid]]a | superordo = [[Dinosaur]]ia | ordo = [[Saurischia]] | subordo = [[Theropoda]] | infraordo = [[Oviraptorosauria]] | familia = '''Caudipteridae''' | familia_authority = [[Zhonghe Zhou|Zhou]] & [[Xiaolin Wang|Wang]], [[2000]] | genus = '''''Caudipteryx''''' | genus_authority = [[Qiang Ji|Q. Ji]], [[Philip J. Currie|Currie]], [[Mark A. Norell|Norell]] & S.-A. Ji, [[1998]] | subdivision_ranks = [[Species]] | subdivision = * ''C. zoui'' <small>([[type species|type]])</small> }} '''''Caudipteryx''''' was a small [[feather]]ed [[dinosaur]]. It was related to ''[[Oviraptor]]'' but looked more like ''[[Archaeopteryx]]''. It was a relative of ''[[Protarchaeopteryx]]''. It was found in [[China]]. It was a small [[insectivore]], with long thin legs, less than a metre long. It had a fan of tail feathers and a fringe of feathers along the trailing edge of each arm. They are very like bird feathers, with a central stalk, and vanes on either side. Its arms were too short for it to fly.<ref>Gee, Henry2000. ''Deep time: cladistics, the revolution in evolution''. HarperCollins, London. p189</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Oviraptorosauria]] [[Category:Feathered dinosaurs]]