Sinornithosaurus millenii

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Time: Early Cretaceous (~125 million years ago)

Region: Liaoning Province, China

Formation: Yixian Formation, Jehol Biota

Coloration Data

In specimen IVPP V12811, aggregations of both eumelanosomes (responsible for black and grey hues) and pheomelanosomes (responsible for reddish-brown tones) were identified. The analysis sampled the posterior region of the skull, portions of the neck, and a forelimb.

Method: Scanning electron microscopy (SEM).

Publications

• Fucheng Zhang, Stuart L. Kearns, Patrick J. Orr, Michael J. Benton, Zhonghe Zhou, Diane Johnson, Xing Xu, Xiaolin Wang (2010)
  An article from the journal Nature describing Huadanosaurus (here it is referred to as Sinosauropteryx, which was corrected in subsequent works), Sinornithosaurus, and Confuciusornis.
• Arindam Roy, Michael Pittman, Evan T. Saitta, Thomas G. Kaye, Xing Xu (2020)
  An overview article on the paleo‑coloration of amniotes.

Documents and files

• Roy_et_al_2020.pdf (PDF)
  Review article on amniote paleocolor in Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Reconstructions

Fossils