Xingtianosaurus ganqi Xingtianosaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Xingtianosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125 Mya)
- Place
- North America · Canada · China · Alberta, Canada
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Caudipterygidae
Xingtianosaurus is an extinct genus of oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous. The type and only species, X. ganqi, was named and described in 2019. It was placed in the Caudipteridae, alongside Caudipteryx and Similicaudipteryx.
What we know
- Named by Qiu et al., 2019.
- Fossils found in North America and Canada.