Lingyuanosaurus, a new Chinese therizinosaur

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A new genus of therizinosaur has been described from the Early Cretaceous of China. The new genus has been given the name Lingyuanosaurus sihedangensis ("Sihedang's Lingyuan lizard"), with the genus name originating from the city of Lingyuan and the species name originating from the town of Sihedang, both of which are near the locality where the type specimen was discovered. Here is an image of some of the fossils used to describe the new genus and a reconstruction of the genus by DeviantArt artist cisiopurple, as well as a link to the paper describing the new genus.




Paper (open access!): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41560-z

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About as fragmentary as the standard therizinosaur. Fingers crossed for a reasonably complete specimen of a derived therizinosaur.

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About as fragmentary as the standard therizinosaur. Fingers crossed for a reasonably complete specimen of a derived therizinosaur.

There's a decent amount more bones than I posted here, including some claws and ribs. However, the original post would be far too long if I did. I can add these images of the other bones to a reply if need be.

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That's a small boi!

[Halichoeres]

About as fragmentary as the standard therizinosaur. Fingers crossed for a reasonably complete specimen of a derived therizinosaur.

There's a decent amount more bones than I posted here, including some claws and ribs. However, the original post would be far too long if I did. I can add these images of the other bones to a reply if need be.

Oh sure, I clicked through to the paper. But it's still a fairly fragmentary specimen with no cranial material. It's valuable in other ways, but it doesn't offer a lot of new information about what therizinosaurs were like.