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 | |
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.