Kelmayisaurus

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Kelmayisaurus
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Family: unknown
Genus: Kelmayisaurus
Dong (1990)

Kelmayisaurus was an early Cretaceous saurischian dinosaur genus. Its name refers to the petroleum-producing city of Karamay in the Xinjiang province of western China near where it was found.

[edit] Discovery and species

Kelmayisaurus is known only from a lower jawbone found in 1988. It is a nomen dubium due to the scant nature of the remains. The type, and only known species, is K. petrolicus.

[edit] Classification

It is a bipedal carnivore, possibly larger than Allosaurus. It has some features which resemble Ceratosaurus.