Beishanlong

Beishanlong

Beishanlong Fossil range: Early Cretaceous

Scientific classification
Class	Reptilia
Superorder	Dinosauria
Order	Saurischia
Suborder	Theropoda
Family (Unranked)	Ornithomimiformes
Superfamily	Ornithomimosauria
Genus	Beishanlong Makovicky et al., 2009
Species	B. grandis (type) Makovicky et al., 2009

Beishanlong is a genus of giant ornithomimosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. The type species is B. grandis, described in 2009 by a team of Chinese and American paleontologists. Beishanlong lived during the Aptian to Albian stages, around 100 to 125 million years ago. Three fossils were found in northwestern China, in the province of Gansu. Beishanlong was closely related to fellow ornithomimosaurian Harpymimus; together they formed a clade that split off from the main ornithomimosaurian branch just below Garudimimus.^[1]

References[]

^ Peter J. Makovicky, Daqing Li, Ke-Qin Gao, Matthew Lewin, Gregory M. Erickson & Mark A. Norell: A giant ornithomimosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Abstract

External links[]

"Field Museum palaeontologist leads study on two new dinosaurs from China" ScienceCentric.com

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[1] Peter J. Makovicky, Daqing Li, Ke-Qin Gao, Matthew Lewin, Gregory M. Erickson & Mark A. Norell: A giant ornithomimosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Abstract

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