In Depth
Xunmenglong is a genus of compsognathid dinosaur that lived in China during the early Cretaceous. Xunmenglong seems to have been a very small dinosaur, small even for a compsognathid. As such, Xunmenglong was probably a small predator, feeding upon insects and very small vertebrates.
Further Reading
- A new compsognathid theropod dinosaur from the oldest assemblage of the Jehol Biota in the Lower Cretaceous Huajiying Formation, northeastern China. - Cretaceous Research. - Lida Xing, Tetsuto Miyashita, Donghao Wang, Kechung Niu & Philip J. Currie - 2019.
