Luoyanggia Luoyanggia
"from Luoyang"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Luoyanggia 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1.5 m (4.9 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China · South Korea · Spain
- Food
- Omnivore
- Clade
- Oviraptoridae
Luoyanggia (meaning “from Luoyang”) is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous Haoling Formation of the Ruyang Basin in Henan Province, central China. The type species is L. liudianensis. Holtz estimated it at 1.5 m and around 2.27 – 9.1 kg. Molina-Pérez and Larramendi gave a similar size of 1.2 m and 8.5 kg.
What we know
- Named by Lü et al., 2009.
- Body length estimated at about 1.5 m.
- Fossils found in China and South Korea.