Beipiaosaurus
bay-pyow-SORE-us /ˌbeɪpjaʊˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Beipiao lizard
- Beipiao · Chinese (place name) · Beipiao, a city in Liaoning, China
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name refers to Beipiao, the city in Liaoning Province, China, near where the first fossils were found. It is combined with the Greek word for lizard, a common ending for dinosaur names. Beipiaosaurus was a therizinosaur with simple feather-like filaments covering its body.
- Named by
- Xu, Tang and Wang
- Year named
- 1999
- Period
- Early Cretaceous
- Stage
- Aptian
- Found in
- Yixian Formation, Liaoning Province, China
Type species is Beipiaosaurus inexpectus ("unexpected"), a basal therizinosaur. Some sources give the age as Barremian to Aptian.