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Linhenychus Monodactylus Facts for Kids
Are your kids interested in Dinosaurs? Linhenychus Monodactylus has just been found - a new dinosaur!
Find out about its size, habitat, diet and more!
Linhenychus Fast Facts
- It was named Linhenychus because it was found near Linhe.
- It belongs to the family of Therapods.
- Linhenychus were carnivores.
- They lived in the Late Cretaceous Period.
- Their height was about half a meter (2 feet)
- They weighed the same as a large parrot.
More Dinosaur Details
Linhenychus Monodactylus were carnivores, living alongside club-tailed dinosaurs, horned dinosaurs and small cretaceous animals.
They lived about 84 to 75 million years ago - in the late cretaceous period. This was at the same time as some really big meat eating dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus, Albertosaurus and Spinosaurus - find out about other cretaceous dinosaurs.
Its dinosaur classification is Therapod.
Linhenykus is a very unusual dinosaur because it had only one finger bearing a large claw. Most other therapods start with 5 fingers and then evolve to 3.
More questions you may have :
Because of their single claw, some researchers think that these dinosaurs used their hands to dig up termite nests.
They stood about 2 feet tall (half a metre)and weighed about the same as a large parrot.
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News source : University College of London.
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