The name is a direct Chinese-to-Latin parallel: Caudipteryx means 'tail feather' (Latin cauda + Greek pteryx), and
尾羽龙 renders that as 'tail-feather-dragon'. Described in 1998 from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning — a turkey-sized theropod with clearly preserved flightless feathers, pivotal evidence that feathers evolved before flight.
