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SUBMITTER: Qin Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6692367 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qin Zichuan Z Clark James J Choiniere Jonah J Xu Xing X
Scientific reports 20190813 1
Alvarezsaurian dinosaurs, a group of bizarre theropods with greatly shortened and modified forelimbs, are known mostly from the Cretaceous of Asia and South America. Here we report a new alvarezsaurian, Shishugounykus inexpectus gen. et sp. nov, based on a specimen recovered from the Middle-Upper Jurassic Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, western China. Together with two other alvarezsaurians from this formation, i.e., Haplocheirus sollers and Aorun zhaoi, these Shishugou forms represent ...[more]