Qianzhousaurus
chee-AHN-joh-SORE-us /tʃiˌɑndʒoʊˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Qianzhou lizard
- Qianzhou · Chinese · an old name for Ganzhou, the city in Jiangxi Province, China, near where the fossil was found
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name combines "Qianzhou", an old name for the city of Ganzhou in southern China's Jiangxi Province where the type specimen was found, with the Greek "sauros" meaning lizard. It is a long-snouted tyrannosaurid, nicknamed "Pinocchio rex" for its slender snout.
- Named by
- Lü et al.
- Year named
- 2014
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Stage
- Maastrichtian
- Found in
- Nanxiong Formation, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China
A tyrannosaurid belonging to the long-snouted Alioramini. The type species is Qianzhousaurus sinensis.