Wulatelong gobiensis (lat.) - a species of dinosaurs from the oviraptoridae family of the lizards of the genus Thyroid , the only of the genus Wulatelong .
| † Wulatelong gobiensis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific classification | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Latin name | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wulatelong gobiensis Xu et al. , 2013 |
Description
He lived at the end of the Cretaceous period (85–70 million years ago) [1] . Petrified remains were found in the sandstone sediments of the Vulansuhai formation near the city of Bayan Mandahu in the Linhe district of Inner Mongolia in China. Holotype No. IVPP V 18409 represents a large part of the skull, postcranial spine, including 11 thoracic and 16 caudal vertebrae .
Notes
- ↑ Xu Xing, Tan Qing-Wei, Wang Shuo, Corwin Sullivan, David WE Hone, Han Feng-Lu, Ma Qing-Yu, Tan Lin and Xiao Dong. A new oviraptorid from the Upper Cretaceous of Nei Mongol, China, and its stratigraphic implications (English) // Vertebrata PalAsiatica: journal. - 2013 .-- Vol. 51 , no. 2 . - P. 85-101 .