Back Huaxiagnathus Catalan Huaxiagnathus Czech Huaxiagnathus orientalis Spanish چینیآرواره Persian Huaxiagnathus French Huaxiagnathus Hungarian Huaxiagnathus Italian ファシャグナトゥス Japanese ഹുവാസീഅഗ്നത്സ് Malayalam Huaxiagnathus Dutch
| Huaxiagnathus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Huaxiagnathus orientalis fossil displayed in Hong Kong Science Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Compsognathidae |
| Genus: | †Huaxiagnathus Hwang et al., 2004 |
| Species: | †H. orientalis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Huaxiagnathus orientalis Hwang et al., 2004
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Huaxiagnathus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China. It was a compsognathid, large for that group at about half a meter longer than Compsognathus and larger specimens of Sinosauropteryx, with the largest specimen about 1.8 meters (5.9 feet) in length.[1]
The name Huaxiagnathus is derived from the Chinese Hua Xia, 華夏, a traditional word for "China", and from the Greek gnathos, Latinised into gnathus, meaning "jaw."