Lingyuanosaurus
| Lingyuanosaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Therizinosauria |
| Genus: | †Lingyuanosaurus Yao et al., 2019 |
| Species: | †L. sihedangensis
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| †Lingyuanosaurus sihedangensis Yao et al., 2019
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Lingyuanosaurus (meaning "the lizard of Lingyuan") is a genus of therizinosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. It contains a single species, L. sihedangensis.[1] It was found within a layer of the Jehol Group.
According to Mickey Mortimer, Lingyuanosaurus may have been an oviraptorosaur.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Yao, Xi; Liao, Chun-Chi; Sullivan, Corwin; Xu, Xing (2019). "A new transitional therizinosaurian theropod from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of China". Scientific Reports. 9 (5026): 1–12. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-41560-z. PMC 6430829. PMID 30903000.
- ^ "What is Lingyuanosaurus?". theropoddatabase.blogspot.com.
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