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Kulindadromeus

Say it: koo-LIN-dah-DROH-mee-us

Name means: “Kulinda runner”4

Ate: PlantsBeaked plant-eatersMiddle Jurassic

Kulindadromeus was a small, fast dinosaur that lived in Siberia during the Middle Jurassic. It had both scales and feather-like filaments, making it one of the earliest dinosaurs known to have such fuzzy coverings.1 2

Lived

168 to 165 million years ago4

Middle Jurassic

Fossils found in

Kulinda locality, southeastern Siberia, Russia1 2

Food

Plants1 4

Length

1.5 m1

Weight

2 kg3

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 17 bananas

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Fun facts

Kulindadromeus had three types of feather-like structures on its body, including simple filaments and more complex tufts.1

It also had three types of scales, showing that this dinosaur had a mix of scales and fuzzy coverings.1

Kulindadromeus lived about 168 to 166 million years ago, during the Middle Jurassic, making it the oldest known dinosaur with feather-like structures.2

It was a small, bipedal herbivore about 1.5 meters (5 feet) long, with short forelimbs, long hind limbs, and a long tail.1

The fossils were found in a lake environment, alongside plants, insect larvae, and freshwater crustaceans.1

Scientists think that feather-like structures might have been common in all dinosaurs, not just the meat-eating ones.1

Kulindadromeus is a basal neornithischian, meaning it is an early relative of plant-eating dinosaurs like Triceratops and Parasaurolophus.1

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Most asked questions about Kulindadromeus

?What did Kulindadromeus eat?

It was a herbivore, eating plants. Its teeth were adapted for eating plants.3

?How big was Kulindadromeus?

It was about 1 to 1.5 metres long and weighed about 2 kilograms.3

?Did Kulindadromeus have feathers?

Yes, it had three types of feather-like structures on its body, including simple filaments and more complex tufts, along with scales.3

?When did Kulindadromeus live?

It lived about 168 to 166 million years ago, during the Middle Jurassic period.3

?Where was Kulindadromeus found?

Its fossils were found in Siberia, Russia, in a place called the Kulinda site.3

?Could Kulindadromeus run fast?

Yes, it was a bipedal runner with long hindlimbs and a long tail, built for speed.3

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Myth buster

Myth: Only meat-eating dinosaurs like Velociraptor had feathers.

Truth: Kulindadromeus was a plant-eating dinosaur that also had feather-like filaments, showing that fuzzy coverings were widespread among dinosaurs.1

For dino experts

Scientific name: Kulindadromeus
Named by: Godefroit et al. 20144
Group: Beaked plant-eaters
Family / clade: Pyrodontia4
Classification: Ornithischia4
Age of the rocks: 168 to 165 million years (Bathonian)4
Rock formations: Ukureyskaya4
Countries: Russia4
Fossil records: 3 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: Kulindadromeus was named in 2014 by Pascal Godefroit and colleagues based on fossils found at the Kulinda locality in Siberia, Russia. The site yielded several partial skulls and hundreds of disarticulated bones.4 1
Still debated: Scientists are still debating whether the feather-like structures of Kulindadromeus are true feathers or just similar-looking filaments that evolved independently.1

Where the facts come from

and scales (biblio.naturalsciences.be)
The rise of feathered dinosaurs: Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus , the oldest dinosaur with ‘feather-like’ structures (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Kulindadromeus (en.wikipedia.org)
Kulindadromeus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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