Anchiornis vs Corythosaurus

A detailed side-by-side comparison of Anchiornis and Corythosaurus, covering size, diet, classification, geologic period, and discovery history.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Propriedade	Anchiornis	Corythosaurus
Nome científico	Anchiornis huxleyi	Corythosaurus casuarius
Classificação	Theropoda	Hadrosauridae
Período	Jurassic Late	Cretaceous Late
Dieta	Insectivore	Herbivore
Comprimento	0.4 m	9.0 m
Height	0.2 m	2.7 m
Peso	0 kg	3.8 t
Ano de descoberta	2009	1914
Local de descoberta	Tiaojishan Formation, China	Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada
Nomeado por	Xu Xing et al.	Barnum Brown

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Size Comparison

Anchiornis 0.4 m

smaller than a human child

Corythosaurus 9.0 m

roughly the length of a large SUV

Weight Comparison

Anchiornis 0 kg

lighter than a human adult

Corythosaurus 3.8 t

comparable to 3.8 small cars

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Timeline Comparison

Anchiornis

161,5 Mya Jurassic Late (Mesozoic) 145,0 Mya

Corythosaurus

100,5 Mya Cretaceous Late (Mesozoic) 66,0 Mya

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Diet Comparison

Anchiornis

Insectivore

Anchiornis primarily fed on insects and other small invertebrates.

Corythosaurus

Herbivore

Corythosaurus was a plant-eater, feeding on vegetation like ferns, conifers, and cycads.

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Classification Comparison

Anchiornis

Clade: Saurischia

Group: Theropoda

(Beast feet)

Corythosaurus

Clade: Ornithischia

Group: Hadrosauridae

(Duck-billed dinosaurs)

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Did You Know?

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Corythosaurus was about 22.5x longer than Anchiornis.

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Corythosaurus weighed roughly 38000x more than Anchiornis.

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Anchiornis was a insectivore while Corythosaurus was a herbivore.

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Anchiornis lived during the Jurassic Late while Corythosaurus lived during the Cretaceous Late, separated by roughly 44 million years.

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Corythosaurus was discovered 95 years earlier, in 1914.

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Anchiornis belonged to Theropoda while Corythosaurus belonged to Hadrosauridae.

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Anchiornis

Anchiornis huxleyi

0.4m long, 0.2m tall, 0.1kg · Jurassic Late

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Corythosaurus casuarius

9.0m long, 2.7m tall, 3.8t · Cretaceous Late

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