Luoyanggia liudianensis Lü et al. 2009 (maniraptoran)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Oviraptoridae

Full reference: J. Lü, L. Xu, X. Jiang, S. Jia, M. Li, C. Yuan, X. Zhang and Q. Ji. 2009. A preliminary report on the new dinosaurian fauna from the Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin, Henan Province of central China. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 25(1):43-56

Belongs to Luoyanggia according to J. Lü et al. 2009

See also Jiang et al. 2011, Wang et al. 2016, Xu and Han 2010 and Xu et al. 2011

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: 41HIII-00010-11, KLR07-62-49-1 and KLR07-62-28a-16, a partial skeleton (Mandible and pelvis). Its type locality is Shijiagou quarry, Liudian, which is in an Aptian/Albian terrestrial siltstone/shale in the Haoling Formation of China.

Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore

Distribution: found only at Shijiagou quarry, Liudian

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