Xixianykus zhangi Xixianykus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Xixianykus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (83 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Alvarezsauridae
Xixianykus is a genus of alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur known from a slab of rock which contains a partial postcranial skeleton unearthed in the Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian) Majiacun Formation of the Xixia Basin in Henan, China.
What we know
- Named by Xu et al., 2010.
- Fossils found in China.