Outline: a typical theropod
Ganzhousaurus
"Ganzhou lizard"
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Oviraptoridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Wang et al. 2013
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Ganzhousaurus
What it was like
Ganzhousaurus was an oviraptorid, a toothless, feathered theropod. It is known from a lower jaw and parts of the skeleton.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now southern China, a region rich in oviraptorids.
How it was found
Wang and colleagues named it in 2013. It is named after the city near where it was found.
Close relatives
Other members of Oviraptoridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. Wang, C. Sun, and C. Sullivan, X. Xing. 2013. A new oviraptoroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China. Zootaxa 3640(2):242-257