Caenagnathasia

Taxobox|
name = "Caenagnathasia"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Theropoda
infraordo = Oviraptorosauria
familia = Caenagnathidae
genus = "Caenagnathasia"
binomial = "Caenagnathasia martinsoni"
binomial_authority = Currie, Godfrey, & Nessov 1993

"Caenagnathasia" (meaning 'recent jaw from Asia') was a small oviraptorosaurian dinosaur (superfamily Caenagnathoidea), measuring only 1 m (3 ft) in length, 0.6 m (2 ft) in height and weighing around 8 kg (18 lb). Like all oviraptorosaurs, "Caenagnathasia" had three fingers on each 'hand' (manus) and three toes on each 'foot' (pes), with bone fusion distinctly similar to that of birds. "Caenagnathasia" dentaries were the first caenagnathoid dentaries to be recovered and it is only from these samples that the species is known. "Caenagnathasia" lived in the late Cretaceous Period, around 90 mya, making it the earliest known caenagnathoid.

External links

* [http://the_dinosauria.tripod.com/caenagnathasia.html Image of "C. martinsonii" at The Dinosauria]

References

* [http://www.dinoruss.org/de_4/5c3df6e.htm "Caenagnathasia" in The Dinosaur Enyclopaedia] on Dino Russ' Lair