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Scipionyx

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Scipionyx
Conservation status: Fossil
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Infraorder: Coelurosauria
Family: Coeluridae
Genus: Scipionyx
Species: S. samniticus
Binomial name
Scipionyx samniticus
dal Sasso & Signore, 1998

Scipionyx was a very small theropod dinosaur from Early Cretaceous Italy. There has been only one skeleton discovered, which is notable for the preservation of soft tissue and internal organs. It is the fossil of a baby only a few inches long. Adult size is estimated to be 2 metres(6 feet).

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