Jinbeisaurus wangi Jinbeisaurus
"northern Shanxi Province lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jinbeisaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (99–71 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Jinbeisaurus (meaning “northern Shanxi Province lizard” after Shanxi Province in China) is an extinct genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous Huiquanpu Formation of Shanxi Province in China. The type and only species is Jinbeisaurus wangi. It is the first non-avian theropod named from Shanxi.
What we know
- Named by Wu et al., 2020.
- Fossils found in China.