Outline: a typical theropod
Luoyanggia
- Lived
- 121 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Oviraptoridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Lü et al. 2009
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
110 million years ago
Field notes
About Luoyanggia
What it was like
Luoyanggia was an oviraptorosaur, a toothless, feathered theropod. It is known from part of a skull and lower jaw.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now central China. Its bones come from the Haoling Formation, where the giant sauropod Ruyangosaurus and the armored Gobisaurus also lived.
How it was found
Lü and colleagues named it in 2009. It is named after a nearby city.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Oviraptoridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. Lü, L. Xu, and X. Jiang, S. Jia, M. Li, C. Yuan, X. Zhang, Q. Ji. 2009. A preliminary report on the new dinosaurian fauna from the Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin, Henan Province of central China. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 25(1):43-56