Dinosaur
Epidexipteryx
Epidexipteryx hui was a small feathered dinosaur with long ribbon-like tail feathers.
Epidexipteryx hui was a small feathered dinosaur with long ribbon-like tail feathers. Its compact body and display feathers are central to its identity.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Epidexipteryx at a glance
- Diet
- Diet uncertain
- When it lived
- Jurassic
- Group
- Scansoriopterygidae
- Scansoriopterygids
Beyond the game
The real Epidexipteryx
Epidexipteryx hui was a small feathered dinosaur with long ribbon-like tail feathers. Its compact body and display feathers are central to its identity.
Its ribbon-like tail feathers formed part of a distinctive display covering. Their presence does not establish the same membranous wing construction known in Yi and Ambopteryx.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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