Xinjiangovenator
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Xinjiangovenator |
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Extinct (fossil)
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Xinjiangovenator parvus Rauhut & Xu, 2005 |
Xinjiangovenator was a genus of coelurosaurian dinosaur of the Valanginian to Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous period. It lived in China. Based on a partial right leg, it was originally thought to be a new specimen of Phaedrolosaurus.[1] It may be related to Bagaraatan, and therefore a tyrannosaur.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Z.-M. Dong. (1973). [Dinosaurs from Wuerho]. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academic Sinica 11:45-52. [Chinese]
- ^ Rauhut, O.W.M., and Xu, X. (2005). The small theropod dinosaurs Tugulusaurus and Phaedrolosaurus from the Early Cretaceous of Xinjiang, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(1):107-118