Qiupanykus zhangi
"claw from the Qiupa Formation"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Qiupanykus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–66 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Qiupanykus (IPA: International Phonetic Alphabet|, meaning “claw from the Qiupa Formation”) is an extinct genus of alvarezsaurid theropod from the Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Henan Province, China. The type and only species is Q. zhangi, named for Shuancheng Zhang, who assisted in finding the fossils of Qiupanykus.
What we know
- Named by Lü et al., 2018.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Qiupanykus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.