Yixianosaurus

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Yixianosaurus
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
(unranked) Maniraptora
Genus: Yixianosaurus
Xu & Wang, 2003
Species
  • Y. longimanus Xu & Wang, 2003 (type)

Yixianosaurus (meaning "Yixian lizard") was a maniraptoran dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian stage, 125 million years ago) of China. It is known only from a pair of fossilized arms complete with fossilized feathers. Its exact placement within Maniraptora is uncertain, though its hands resemble those of another feathered dinosaur, Epidendrosaurus.[1]

The type species, Yixianosaurus longimanus, was formally described by Xu X. & Wang Xiao-lin in 2003. The partial skeleton was recovered in Liaoning, in northeastern China.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Yixianosaurus longimanus, a Peculiarly Normal Yixian Theropod
  2. ^ *Xu X. & Wang Xiao-lin. (2003). "A new maniraptoran from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning". Vertebrata PalAsiatica 41(3): 195–202.
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