Qiupanykus zhangi Qiupanykus
"claw from the Qiupa Formation"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Qiupanykus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–66 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.