Heyuannia huangi Heyuannia
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Heyuannia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (70–66 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China · Mongolia
- Food
- Omnivore
- Clade
- Oviraptoridae
Heyuannia (“from Heyuan”) is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, in what is now China and Mongolia. It was the first oviraptorid found in China; most others were found in neighbouring Mongolia. Two species are known: H. huangi, named by Lü Junchang in 2002 from the Dalangshan Formation; and H. yanshini, originally named as a separate genus Ingenia from the Barun Goyot Formation by Rinchen Barsbold in 1981, and later renamed to Ajancingenia in 2013 due to the preoccupation of Ingenia. The latter name was eventually discarded due to various ethical issues surrounding the author.
What we know
- Named by Lü, 2002.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.