Genus
Valid Extinct

Banji

Xu and Han 2010
Etymology Crête rayée de ''ban'', rayure et ''ji'', crête

Banji is an extinct genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived approximately 66 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now China. It was a small, lightly built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, that was an estimated 65 cm (2.1 ft) long, as a juvenile.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Omnivore Ground dwelling (surface) Terrestrial
Banji
click to enlarge
Skull of Banji long. The horizontal line projected through the posterodorsal corner of the antorbital fenestra is parallel to the line linking the articular end of the quadrate and the ventral margin of the premaxillae. © Junchang Lü, Hanyong Pu, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Li Xu, Huali Chang, Yuhua Shang, Di Liu, Yuong-Nam Lee, Martin Kundrát & Caizhi Shen · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB ↗ Wikipedia ↗
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
›
Theropoda Unranked clade
›
Neotheropoda Unranked clade
›
Averostra Unranked clade
›
Tetanurae Unranked clade
›
Coelurosauria Unranked clade
›
Maniraptora Unranked clade
›
Oviraptorosauria Infraorder
›
Oviraptoridae Family
›
Heyuanninae Subfamily
›
Banji Genus
Measurements
Length
0,7 m ⓘ
Banji long
Mass
1,25 kg ⓘ
Banji long
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Banji long 72 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
X. Xu and F.-L. Han. 2010. A new oviraptorid dinosaur (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48(1):11-18
Bibliography (1)
X. Xu and F.-L. Han. 2010. A new oviraptorid dinosaur (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48(1):11-18