And chi [2] ( lat. Yi qi , from Chinese trad. 翼 , pinyin : yì - wing and Chinese trad. 奇 , pinyin : qí - strange) is a type of avian (feathered dinosaurs close to archeopteryx ) from the family of scansoriopterigid (Scansoriopterygidae), the only one of the genus Yi .
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Family: | † Scancoriopterygides |
| Gender: | † Yi Xu et al. 2015 |
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Yi qi Xu et al. 2015 |
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The name Yi qi is considered the shortest of the names of dinosaurs [3] .
The remains of the skeleton were found in eastern China by a farmer who sold them to the museum in 2007. In 2015, based on the holotype STM 31-2, new species and genus were described. A group of scientists who were engaged in the discovery was led by the famous Chinese paleontologist Xu Xing . There are only four letters in the scientific name of the species, which is the most concise permitted variant and one of the most concise variants of the name of the species (there is also a four-letter name for the species of the bat ).
The creature's weight was estimated at 380 g. The age of the remains is about 160 million years.
Noteworthy are the webbed wings of a bat type, with membranes that were supposedly attached to the bone outgrowths [4] and allowed the animal to plan. It was unlikely that they were capable of active flight.