Yixianosaurus

Yixianosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Yixianosaurus"
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Theropoda
unranked_familia = Maniraptora
genus = "Yixianosaurus"
genus_authority = Xu & Wang, 2003
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Y. longimanus" Xu & Wang, 2003 (type)

"Yixianosaurus" (meaning "Yixian lizard") was a maniraptoran dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian stage, 125 million years ago) of China. It is known only from a pair of fossilized arms complete with fossilized feathers. Its exact placement within Maniraptora is uncertain, though its hands resemble those of another feathered dinosaur, "Epidendrosaurus". [http://dml.cmnh.org/2003Aug/msg00176.html Yixianosaurus longimanus, a Peculiarly Normal Yixian Theropod] ]

The type species, "Yixianosaurus longimanus", was formally described by Xu X. & Wang Xiao-lin in 2003. The partial skeleton was recovered in Liaoning, in northeastern China.*Xu X. & Wang Xiao-lin. (2003). "A new maniraptoran from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning". "Vertebrata PalAsiatica" 41(3): 195–202.]

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