Daliansaurus
| Daliansaurus Temporal range: Barremian, 125 Ma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Troodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Sinovenatorinae |
| Genus: | †Daliansaurus Shen et al., 2017 |
| Type species | |
| Daliansaurus liaoningensis Shen et al., 2017 | |
Daliansaurus (meaning "Dalian reptile") is a genus of troodontid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. It contains a single species, D. liaoningensis, named in 2017 by Shen and colleagues from a nearly complete skeleton. Daliansaurus is unusual in possessing an enlarged claw on the fourth digit of the foot, in addition to the "sickle claw" found on the second digit of the feet of most paravians.[1]
Classification
In 2017, Shen et al. described Daliansaurus and the new group Sinovenatorinae, within the Troodontidae, related to Mei, Sinovenator, and Sinusonasus. The results of their analysis are shown below.[1]
| Deinonychosauria |
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References
- 1 2 Shen, C.; Lu, J.; Liu, S.; Kundrát, M.; Brusatte, S.L.; Gao, H. (2017). "A New Troodontid Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, China". Acta Geologica Sinica. 91 (3): 763–780. doi:10.1111/1755-6724.13307.
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