Qiupalong henanensis Xu et al. 2011 (ornithomimid)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Ornithomimidae

Full reference: L. Xu, Y. Kobayashi, Y.-N. Lee, Y. Liu, K. Tanaka, X. Zhang, S. Jia and J. Zhang. 2011. A new ornithomimid dinosaur with North American affinities from the Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation in Henan Province of China. Cretaceous Research 32(1):213-222

Belongs to Qiupalong according to L. Xu et al. 2011

See also Averianov et al. 2017, Chinzorig et al. 2017, Hunt and Quinn 2018 and McFeeters et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: HGM 41HIII-0106, a set of postcrania. Its type locality is Qiupa, Luanchuan Basin, which is in a Maastrichtian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone/conglomerate in the Qiupa Formation of China.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Qiupa, Luanchuan Basin

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