Outline: a typical theropod
Jiangxisaurus
"Jiangxi lizard"
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Oviraptoridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Wei et al. 2013
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Jiangxisaurus
What it was like
Jiangxisaurus was an oviraptor, a feathered, beaked dinosaur with no teeth. It is known from a partial skull and skeleton, and it had strongly curved claws on its hands.
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 that has produced many kinds of oviraptors.
How it was found
Wei and colleagues named Jiangxisaurus in 2013, from a single find.
Close relatives
Other members of Oviraptoridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: X. Wei, H. Pu, and L. Xu, D. Liu, J. Lü. 2013. A new oviraptorid dinosaur (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, southern China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 87(4):899-904