 In view of the exceptional importance of the find, between December 2005 and October 2008 the fossil was intensively studied in Milan resulting in a monograph by dal Sasso and Simone Maganuco published in 2011, containing the most extensive description of a single dinosaur species ever.The holotype of "Scipionyx" represents a very small individual, the preserved length being just 237 millimetres.In 2011 dal Sasso & Maganuco estimated its total length, including the missing tail section, at 461 millimetres.