Shanag

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Shanag
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Family: Dromaeosauridae
Subfamily: Unenlagiinae
Genus: Shanag
Turner et al. 2007
Species
  • S. ashile Turner et al., 2007 (type)

Shanag (in reference to black-hatted dancers in the Buddhist Tsam Festival) is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of Mongolia. Shanag bears a strong resemblance to primitive Chinese dromaeosaurids such as Microraptor and Sinornithosaurus, suggesting a close similarity between the fauna of the Öösh deposits where Shanag was found, and the Jehol biota of China (such as the animals found in the Yixian Formation), during the Early Cretaceous.[1]

The type species of Shanag is S. ashile.

[edit] Material

The holotype of S. ashile, IGM 100/1119, is composed of a nearly complete right maxilla, dentary, and a partial splenial.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Turner, A.S.; Hwang, S.H.; and Norell, M.A. (2007). "A small derived theropod from Öösh, Early Cretaceous, Baykhangor Mongolia". American Museum Novitates 3557: 1–27. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3557[1:ASDTFS]2.0.CO;2. 
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