Beishanlong
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Beishanlong 7 m (23 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 7 m (23 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (123–113 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Beishanlong is a genus of giant ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. It is the second-largest ornithomimosaur discovered, only surpassed by the related Deinocheirus.
What we know
- Named by Makovicky et al., 2010.
- Body length estimated at about 7 m.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Beishanlong — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.