Yixianosaurus longimanus
"Yixian lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yixianosaurus 1 m (3.3 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (122 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Yixianosaurus (meaning “Yixian lizard”) is a maniraptoran theropod dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous of China.
The type species, Yixianosaurus longimanus, was formally named and described by Xu Xing and Wang Xiaolin in 2003. Its partial skeleton was discovered in 2001, in Liaoning at Wangjiagou in northeastern China. The generic name refers to the Yixian Formation. The specific name means “with a long hand” from Latin longus, “long”, and manus, “hand”.
What we know
- Named by Xu & Wang, 2003.
- Body length estimated at about 1 m.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Yixianosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.