Beishanlong
| Beishanlong Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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| Family: | Harpymimidae
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| Genus: | Beishanlong Makovicky et al., 2010
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Beishanlong is a genus of giant ornithomimosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. The type species is B. grandis, described online in 2009 by a team of Chinese and American paleontologists (the officially published paper validating the name has not yet appeared in print). Beishanlong lived during the Aptian to Albian stages, around 100 to 125 million years ago.[1]
Discovery
Fossils of a partial skeleton were found in northwestern China, in the province of Gansu. According to the description, Beishanlong "is one of the largest definitive ornithomimosaurs yet described, though histological analysis shows that the holotype individual was still growing at its death."[1]
Classification
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
External links
- "Field Museum palaeontologist leads study on two new dinosaurs from China" ScienceCentric.com
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