Jinbeisaurus wangi
"northern Shanxi Province lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jinbeisaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (99–71 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Jinbeisaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.