Heyuannia huangi Lü 2003 (maniraptoran)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Oviraptoridae

Full reference: J. Lü. 2003. A new oviraptorosaurid (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of southern China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(4):871-875

Belongs to Heyuannia according to X. Xu and F.-L. Han 2010

See also Cheng et al. 2008, Delcourt and Grillo 2014, Fanti et al. 2012, Funston 2020, Funston et al. 2020, Funston et al. 2015, Lamanna et al. 2014, Longrich et al. 2010, Lü 2003, Lü et al. 2004, Lü and Zhang 2005, Norell et al. 2018, Osmólska et al. 2004, Simon et al. 2019, Wang et al. 2016, Wiemann et al. 2017 and Yun 2019

Sister taxon: Heyuannia yanshini

Type specimen: HYMV1-1, a set of postcrania. Its type locality is Huangsha Quarry, which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the Dalangshan Formation of China.

Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore

Distribution: found only at Huangsha Quarry

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