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Six small non-avian dinosaur eggs, no bigger than grapes, were discovered during a field study in Ganzhou, China, in 2021. These eggs now mark the smallest-ever found in the world. A new record ...
Olsen et al. (2022) present evidence from the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic strata of the Junggar Basin (northwest China) indicating that during the early Mesozoic dinosaurs were present at arctic latitudes with freezing winter temperatures, and argue that non-avian dinosaurs were likely primitively insulated and that their insulation ...
The Yuanyanglong fossil material, was discovered in 2021 in sediments of the Miaogou Formation (Maortu locality) in the Gobi Desert of Chilantai, Inner Mongolia, China.Two incomplete skeletons were found in association on the same block, which are assumed to represent the same species based on comparable anatomy and body size.
China: The first non-avian dinosaur found with direct evidence of feathers. Analysis of melanosomes suggests it had orange-brown and white countershading with a striped tail and a "bandit mask" around its eyes [133] Sinosaurus: 1940 Lufeng Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian) China: Had a pair of midline crests similar to ...
In 2024, Dai et al. described Qianjiangsaurus changshengi as a new genus and species of hadrosauroid dinosaurs based on these fossil remains. The generic name , Qianjiangsaurus , combines "Qianjiang"—the name of the district containing the type locality —with the Greek σαῦρος ( sauros ), meaning ' lizard ' .
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Illustration. First described in 1973, [3] Shantungosaurus is known from over five incomplete skeletons. Chinese scientist Xing Xu and his colleagues indicate that Shantungosaurus is very similar to and shares many unique characters with Edmontosaurus, forming a node of an Edmontosaurus–Shantungosaurus clade between North America and Asia, based on the new materials recovered in Shandong.
Lingwulong is a genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of what is now Lingwu, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China. The type and only species is L. shenqi, known from several partial skeletons. It is the earliest-aged neosauropod ever discovered, as well as the only definite diplodocoid from east Asia. [1]