Holotype
IVPP V12330
Microraptor zhaoianus
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- Catalog number
- IVPP V12330
- Institution
- Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP)
- Year found
- Not recorded
- Locality
- Near Chaoyang, western Liaoning (Jiufotang Formation)
- Formation
- Jiufotang Formation
Excavation history
The type specimen of the smallest non-bird dinosaur known in 2000; parts of the same animal had been used in the forged "Archaeoraptor".