Outline: a typical theropod
Qiupalong
"Qiupa dragon"
Type species Qiupalong henanensis
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Ornithomimidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Xu et al. 2011
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Qiupalong
What it was like
Qiupalong was an ostrich-like dinosaur, a relative of Ornithomimus and Struthiomimus, with long legs, a long neck and a toothless beak. It is known from part of the hips and legs.
Its relatives lived mostly in North America, which suggests these animals moved between Asia and North America.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now central China. Its bones come from the Qiupa Formation, where it shared the land with the tyrannosaur Tarbosaurus, the small oviraptor Yulong and the raptor Luanchuanraptor.
How it was found
Xu and colleagues named Qiupalong in 2011, from a single find.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ornithomimidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: L. Xu, Y. Kobayashi, and Y.-N. Lee, Y. Liu, K. Tanaka, X. Zhang, S. Jia, J. Zhang. 2011. A new ornithomimid dinosaur with North American affinities from the Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation in Henan Province of China. Cretaceous Research 32(1):213-222