Art illustration - Dinosaurs - Caudipteryx: ("plumed tail") is a genus of theropod dinosaurs caudiptéridos, who lived in the early Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago in the Barremian, in what is now Asia, they have feathers and are very similar to birds in their appearance general.1 Caudipteryx fossils were first discovered in the Yixian Formation of the Sihetun area in Liaoning province in northeast China in 1997.