Ganzhousaurus Ganzhousaurus
"Ganzhou lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ganzhousaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–66 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Omnivore
- Clade
- Oviraptoridae
Ganzhousaurus (meaning “Ganzhou lizard”) is an extinct genus of oviraptorid dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Nanxiong Formation of Nankang County, Ganzhou City of Jiangxi Province, southern China. It was found in a Maastrichtian deposit and contains a single species, Ganzhousaurus nankangensis. It is distinguished by a combination of primitive and derived features.
What we know
- Named by Wang et al., 2013.
- Fossils found in China.