Nankangia

"from Nankang"

• Nankang · Chinese (place name) · Nankang District, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
• -ia · Latin · place-name suffix

Nankangia is named after Nankang District in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, southern China, near where the fossil was found. The Latinised suffix "-ia" is a standard ending for place names. The only named species is Nankangia jiangxiensis, which was described from a partial skeleton of a beaked, toothless oviraptorosaur.

Named by

Lü et al.

Year named

2013

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China

An oviraptorid (oviraptorosaurian theropod) dinosaur. Type species: Nankangia jiangxiensis. Exact formation and stage details are given from memory and should be checked against the original description.