Mei long
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| phylum | Chordata | Mei (from Chinese 寐 mèi Sleepy) is a genus of duck-sized troodontid dinosaurs first unearthed by paleontologists from the Yixian Formation in Liaoning, China in 2004. Mei lived during the Early Cretaceous period. The binomial name of its only species, Mei long (Chinese 寐 mèi and 龍 lóng), means sleeping dragon.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| clade | Dinosauria | |
| order | Theropoda | |
| family | Troodontidae | |
| genus | †Mei | |
| species | †Mei long | |
| Epoch | Early Cretaceous |
