[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Subject Index][Author Index]

[dinosaur] Qiupanykus, new alvarezsaur from Late Cretaceous of Henan Province, China (free pdf)




Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com


Okay, sorry for the earlier post. Right after I sent it, I tried a different query with a mix of Chinese and English and found the journal and the paper in open access. It's been out since March but I missed it. The name Qiupanykus gets zero Google results at the moment. Better late than never... The abstract page loads a bit slow. If it times out, refresh the link.

You can also download the pdf from the contents page for the first issue.

http://chinageology.cgs.cn/article/2018/1?pageType=en


Qiupanykus zhangi gen. et sp. nov.



Jun-chang LÃ, Li Xu, Hua-li Chang, Song-hai Jia, Ji-ming Zhang, Dian-song Gao, Yi-yang Zhang, Cheng-jun Zhang & Fang Ding (2018)
A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Luanchuan, Henan Province, central China.
Geology China 1(1): 28-35Â
doi: 10.31035/cg2018005
http://chinageology.cgs.cn/article/id/5b2ca616-1998-40f5-a320-5309ae7e30d1?pageType=en


An alvarezsaurid dinosaur skeleton was discovered from the Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Luanchuan,Henan Province of centtral China. It represents a new alvarezsaurid dinosaur Qiupanykus zhangi gen. et sp. nov. A phylogenetic analysis recovers Qiupanykus nested within the unresolved clade, which includes Asian and north American taxa. The skeleton of the new specimen is preserved in association with eggshells. The eggshell morphologies show that these eggs belong to oviraptorid eggs, skeletal remains of which were discovered from the same area. The alvarezsaurid skeleton associated with eggshell fragments may indicate that these eggs were broken by the strong thumb-claws of the former and that alvarezsaurid dinosaurs may be egg-eaters.