Ganzhousaurus
gan-JOH-sore-us /ˌɡænˈdʒoʊsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Ganzhou lizard
- Ganzhou · Chinese (place name) · Ganzhou, a city in Jiangxi Province, China
- sauros · Greek · lizard
Ganzhousaurus is named after Ganzhou, the city in Jiangxi Province, southern China, where the fossil was found. It is combined with the Greek word for lizard, a standard ending for dinosaur names. The type species is Ganzhousaurus nankangensis, which honours Nankang District in Ganzhou.
- Named by
- Wang et al.
- Year named
- 2013
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Stage
- Maastrichtian
- Found in
- Nanxiong Formation, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China
Ganzhousaurus is an oviraptorosaur, a group of feathered theropod dinosaurs. It is known from a partial skeleton.