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HUANANSAURUS
(hu-ah-nan-sor-us)
meaning: "Huanan lizard"
Huanansaurus
Named By: J. Lu, H. Pu, Y. Kobayashi, L. Xu, H. Chang, Y. Shang, D. Liu, Y.inN. Lee, M. Kundrat & C. Shen in 2015
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 72 Ma
Location: China - Nanxiong Formation
Size: Skull approximately 24 centimetres long. Skeletal details unavailable at time of writing
Diet: Uncertain
Fossil(s): Skull and partial post cranial skeleton
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Oviraptorosauria | Oviraptoridae | Oviraptorinae |
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Huanansaurus is an extinct genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived approximately 72 million years ago, between the Campanian and Maastrichtian, during the latter part of the Cretaceous period in what is now China, in the Nanxiong Formation.

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