Beibeilong

Pu et al. 2017

Beibeilong is a genus of large caenagnathid dinosaurs that lived in China during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 96 million to 88 million years ago. The genus contains a single species, Beibeilong sinensis. The species was named and described in 2017 through analysis of an embryonic skeleton and partial nest with large eggs that were discovered in the Gaogou Formation of China between 1992 and 1993.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Omnivore Ground dwelling (surface) Terrestrial

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(a) Photograph. (b) Highly schematic outline shows general layout of the skeleton (illustrated by Zhaochuang). Scale bar, 5 cm. d, dentary; f, femur; fi, fibula; fr, frontal; lj, lower jaw; or, orbit; ti, tibia. © Hanyong Pu, Darla K. Zelenitsky, Junchang Lü, Philip J. Currie, Kenneth Carpenter, Li Xu, Eva B. Koppelhus, Songhai Jia, Le Xiao, Huali Chuang, Tianran Li, Martin Kundrát & Caizhi Shen. · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Theropoda Unranked clade

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Neotheropoda Unranked clade

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Averostra Unranked clade

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Tetanurae Unranked clade

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Coelurosauria Unranked clade

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Maniraptora Unranked clade

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Oviraptorosauria Infraorder

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Caenagnathidae Family

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Beibeilong Genus

Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇨🇳 China

Geological formations

Gaogou

Temporal distribution

Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)

Species (1)

Beibeilong sinensis 101 Ma

Images 1

Bibliography

Original description

H. Pu, D. K. Zelenitsky, and J. Lü, P. J. Currie, K. Carpenter, L. Xu, E. B. Koppelhus, S. Jia, L. Xiao, H. Chuang, T. Li, M. Kundrát, C. Shen. 2017. Perinate and eggs of a giant caenagnathid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of central China. Nature Communications 8:14952:1-9 DOI ↗

Bibliography (1)