Paraxenisaurus
Name:
Paraxenisaurus
(strange lizard).
Phonetic: Pa-rah-ze-ne-sor-us.
Named By: Claudia In�s Serrano-Bra�as, Belinda
Espinosa-Ch�vez, S. Augusta Maccracken, Cirene Guti�rrez-Blando,
Claudio de Le�n-D�vila & Jos� Flores Ventura - 2020.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Ornithomimosauria, Deinocheiridae.
Species: P. normalensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore?
Size: Uncertain but roughly estimated to be about
5.7 meters long.
Known locations: Mexico, Coahuila - Cerro del
Pueblo Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial skeleton
including
femur (thigh bone), astragalus (ankle) and a partial foot
and hand. Some vertebrae also known.
Paraxenisaurus
is a genus of deinocheirid dinosaur that lived in Mexico during the
late Cretaceous. Deinocheirid dinosaurs like Paraxenisaurus
are a
special sub group of ornithomimosaurs
that are more similar to the
Deinocheirus
genus (Deinocheirus was for a long
time known only from
a gigantic pair of arms until the early twenty-first century when more
complete skeletons were found). Paraxenisaurus
is the first
deinocheirid dinosaur discovered in North America. Before this
discovery all other deinocheirid dinosaurs were only known in Asia.
Further reading
- Paraxenisaurus
normalensis, a large deinocheirid ornithomimosaur from the
Cerro del
Pueblo Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Coahuila, Mexico. -
Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 101. - Claudia In�s
Serrano-Bra�as, Belinda Espinosa-Ch�vez, S. Augusta Maccracken,
Cirene Guti�rrez-Blando, Claudio de Le�n-D�vila & Jos�
Flores
Ventura - 2020.
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