Beishanlong

Beishanlong; Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
Superfamily:	Ornithomimosauria
(unranked):	Ornithomimiformes
Genus:	Beishanlong; Makovicky et al., 2009
Species
	B. grandis Makovicky et al., 2009 (type);

Beishanlong is a genus of giant ornithomimosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. The type species is B. grandis, described in 2009 by a team of Chinese and American paleontologists. Beishanlong lived during the Aptian to Albian stages, around 100 to 125 million years ago. Three fossils were found in northwestern China, in the province of Gansu. Beishanlong was closely related to fellow ornithomimosaurian Harpymimus; together they formed a clade that split off from the main ornithomimosaurian branch just below Garudimimus.^[1]

References

^ Peter J. Makovicky, Daqing Li, Ke-Qin Gao, Matthew Lewin, Gregory M. Erickson & Mark A. Norell: A giant ornithomimosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Abstract

External links

"Field Museum palaeontologist leads study on two new dinosaurs from China" ScienceCentric.com

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[1] Peter J. Makovicky, Daqing Li, Ke-Qin Gao, Matthew Lewin, Gregory M. Erickson & Mark A. Norell: A giant ornithomimosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Abstract

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