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.