Luoyanggia
| Luoyanggia Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 96Ma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Oviraptorosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Caenagnathoidea |
| Family: | †Oviraptoridae |
| Genus: | †Luoyanggia Lü et al., 2009 |
| Species: | † L. liudianensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Luoyanggia liudianensis Lü et al., 2009 | |
Luoyanggia is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur first reported from the Ruyang Basin, Henan Province of central China in 2009. The formation dates to the Cenomanian stage of the late Cretaceous period, around 96 million years ago. The type species is L. liudianensis.[1]
References
- ↑ Lü., J., Xu, L., Jiang, X., Jia, S., Li, M., Yuan, C., Zhang, X. and Ji, Q. (2009). "A preliminary report on the new dinosaurian fauna from the Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin, Henan Province of central China." Journal of the Palaeontological Society of Korea, 25: 43-56.