Yixianosaurus
yee-shee-AN-oh-SORE-us /jiːʃiˌænəˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Yixian lizard
- Yixian · Chinese (place name) · Yixian, the county and formation in Liaoning, China
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name combines Yixian, the county and formation in Liaoning Province, China, where the fossil was found, with the Greek word for lizard. It means "lizard from Yixian". The only named species, Y. longimanus, means "long hand" and refers to its notably long, robust hand.
- Named by
- Xu and Wang
- Year named
- 2003
- Period
- Early Cretaceous
- Stage
- Barremian
- Found in
- Yixian Formation, Liaoning Province, China
A small maniraptoran theropod known from a single partial specimen, with a long hand and strongly curved claws. Its exact placement within Maniraptora is uncertain. The age of the Yixian Formation is often given as roughly Barremian to Aptian, so the stage given here is approximate.