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Caudipteryx (meaning "tail feather") is a genus of peacock-sized theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Aptian age of the early Cretaceous Period (about 124.6 million years ago). They were feathered and remarkably birdlike in their overall appearance, to the point that some paleontologists think it was a bird. 2 species have been described: C. zoui (the type species), in 1998, and C. dongi, in 2000.

Caudipteryx fossils were first discovered in the Yixian Formation of the Sihetun area of Liaoning Province, northeastern China in 1997.

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Caudipteryx has never appeared or mentioned in any Jurassic Park films or books, it has however appeared in the Dinosaur Field Guide as well as the Jurassic World Dinosaur Field Guide.

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