Huanansaurus
Appearance
Huanansaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Oviraptoridae |
Genus: | †Huanansaurus Lü et al., 2015 |
Species: | †H. ganzhouensis
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Binomial name | |
†Huanansaurus ganzhouensis Lü et al., 2015
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Huanansaurus is an extinct genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived approximately 72 million years ago, between Campanian and Maastrichtian, during the latter part of the Cretaceous period in what is now China, in the Nanxiong Formation.[1]
See also
References
- ^ Junchang Lü, Hanyong Pu, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Li Xu, Huali Chang, Yuhua Shang, Di Liu, Yuong-Nam Lee, Martin Kundrát and Caizhi Shen (2015). "A New Oviraptorid Dinosaur (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Southern China and Its Paleobiogeographical Implications". Scientific Reports. 5 (11490). doi:10.1038/srep11490.
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