Protarchaeopteryx

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Protarchaeopteryx
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Genus: Protarchaeopteryx
Ji & Ji, 1997
Species

Protarchaeopteryx is an extinct genus of feathered dinosaur, found in China. Even though it lived later than Archaeopteryx, it's considered more primitive, and is supposed to have been flightless, based on it's symmetrical feathers.

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