Jinbeisaurus
Name:
Jinbeisaurus
(northern Shanxi Province lizard).
Phonetic: Jin-bay-sor-us.
Named By: Wu Xiao-chun, Shi Jian-Ru, Dong
Li-Yang, Thomas D. Carr, Yi Jian & Xu Shi-Chao -
2019.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Tyrannosauroidea.
Species: J. wangi (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains, but very
roughly estimated to be somewhere around 5.5 meters long for the
holotype individual.
Known locations: China, Shanxi Province -
Huiquanpu Formation.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Two maxilla (tooth bearing
bones of upper jaw), right dentary (lower jaw), vertebrae and
partial right pubis.
Jinbeisaurus
is a genus of tyrannosaur
that lived in China during the Late
Cretaceous, and is the first dinosaur of its kind discovered in
Shanxi Province. Fossils of Jinbeisaurus are very
partially preserved
meaning it is hard to be certain about too much detail about this
dinosaur. The size of the fossils of the holotype however indicate
that this individual was a medium sized tyrannosaur.
Jinbeisaurus
is the first moderately large predatory dinosaur known from the Shanxi
Formation. Possible prey dinosaurs might have included ornithichians
like Datonglong.
Other types of dinosaur that Jinbeisaurus might
have
come into contact with include the sauropod
Huabeisaurus,
and the
ankylosaurs
Shanxia
and Tianzhenosaurus.
Further reading
- A new tyrannosauroid from
the Upper Cretaceous of Shanxi, China. - Cretaceous Research -
Wu Xiao-chun, Shi Jian-Ru, Dong Li-Yang, Thomas D. Carr, Yi
Jian & Xu Shi-Chao - 2019.
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