| Caihong Temporal range: Oxfordian
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| The holotype of Caihong juji, PMoL-B00175 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Anchiornithidae |
| Genus: | †Caihong Hu et al., 2018 |
| Type species | |
| †Caihong juji Hu et al., 2018
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Caihong (Chinese: 彩虹; pinyin: cǎihóng; lit. 'rainbow') is a genus of small paravian theropod dinosaur from China that lived during the Late Jurassic period.[1]
- ^ Hu, Dongyu; Clarke, Julia A.; Eliason, Chad M.; Qiu, Rui; Li, Quanguo; Shawkey, Matthew D.; Zhao, Cuilin; D'Alba, Liliana; Jiang, Jinkai; Xu, Xing (2018). "A bony-crested Jurassic dinosaur with evidence of iridescent plumage highlights complexity in early paravian evolution". Nature Communications. 9 (1): Article number 217. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02515-y. PMC 5768872. PMID 29335537.