Qiupalong henanensis Qiupalong
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Qiupalong 2.9 m (9.4 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 2.9 m (9.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- North America · Asia · China · Alberta, Canada
- Food
- Omnivore
- Clade
- Ornithomimidae
Qiupalong (IPA: International Phonetic Alphabet|; ) is an extinct genus of ornithomimosaurian theropod that was discovered in the Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Henan, China. The genus contains a single species, Q. henanensis, the specific epithet for which was named for the province of Henan. Uniquely, Qiupalong is one of the few Late Cretaceous non-avian dinosaurs known from both Asia and Laramidia. A specimen from Alberta has been referred to the genus without being assigned to the type species or suggested to be similar to it. A fossil of an ornithomimid similar to Qiupalong has also been described from Russian Far East.
What we know
- Named by Xu et al., 2011.
- Body length estimated at about 2.85 m.
- Fossils found in North America and Asia.