A new ornithomimid dinosaur with North American affinities from the Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation in Henan Province of China

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 213-222

  Xu, Li ^a   Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu ^b   Lü, Junchang ^c   Lee, Yuong Nam ^d   Liu, Yongqing ^c   Tanaka, Kohei ^b,e   Zhang, Xingliao ^a   Jia, Songhai ^a   Zhang, Jiming ^a  

^a Henan Geological Museum   (China)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^d Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

China; Dinosauria; Henan Province; Late Cretaceous; Ornithomimidae; Ornithomimosauria; Qiupa Formation; Qiupalong henanensis

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; SKELETON;

CHINA; HENAN; LUANCHUAN;

DINOSAURIA; ORNITHOMIMIDAE; ORNITHOMIMOSAURIA; ORNITHOMIMUS; STRUTHIOMIMUS;

EID: 78951469957     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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