Jiangxisaurus
Name:
Jiangxisaurus
(Jiangxi lizard).
Phonetic: Je-ang-ze-sor-us.
Named By: Wei Xuefang, Pu Hanyong, Xu Li, Liu
Di & L� Junchang - 2013.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Oviraptoridae.
Species: J. ganzhouensis
(type).
Diet: Uncertain/Omnivore?
Size: Skull 15 centimetres long. Roughly
estimated at about 1.5 meters long, though this is of a
subadult. Fully grown adults were slightly a little bit larger.
Known locations: China - Nanxiong Formation.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and partial
post cranial skeletal remains.
Jiangxisaurus is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in China during the late Cretaceous. Other oviraptorid dinosaurs known from the Nanxiong Formation where the holotype specimen of Jiangxisaurus was found include Banji, Ganzhousaurus, Huanansaurus and Nankangia.
Further reading
- A New Oviraptorid Dinosaur (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from
the Late Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, Southern China. - Acta
Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 87 (4): 899–904. -
Wei Xuefang, Pu Hanyong, Xu Li, Liu Di & L� Junchang
- 2013.
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