Ganzhousaurus
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| Ganzhousaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Oviraptorosauria |
| Family: | †Oviraptoridae |
| Subfamily: | †Ingeniinae |
| Genus: | †Ganzhousaurus Wang et al., 2013 |
| Type species | |
| †Ganzhousaurus nankangensis Wang et al., 2013 | |
Ganzhousaurus is an extinct genus of oviraptorine oviraptorid dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Nanxiong Formation of Nankang County, Ganzhou City of Jiangxi Province, southern China. It was found in a Maastrichtian deposit and contains a single species, Ganzhousaurus nankangensis.[1] It is distinguished by a combination of primitive and derived features.[1]
Phylogeny
Phylogenetic analysis places it in the clade Oviraptoridae as the sister taxon to Oviraptor, Citipati, Rinchenia and the Zamyn Khondt oviraptorid. [1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wang, S.; Sun, C.; Sullivan, C.; Xu, X. (2013). "A new oviraptorid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China". Zootaxa 3640 (2): 242. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3640.2.7.
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