Kelmayisaurus
| Kelmayisaurus | |
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| Maxilla and dentary of IVPP V 4022, the holotype of K. petrolicus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Carcharodontosauridae |
| Genus: | †Kelmayisaurus Dong, 1973 |
| Type species | |
| †Kelmayisaurus petrolicus Dong, 1973
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Kelmayisaurus (meaning "
theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was roughly 10–12 meters (33–39 feet) long and its name refers to the petroleum-producing city of Karamay in the Xinjiang province of western China
near where it was found.
Discovery and species
Kelmayisaurus is known from the
million years ago. The discovery locality is near Wuerho in the Junggar Basin.[1] It was first named and described by Chinese paleontologist Dong Zhiming in 1973 and the type species is Kelmayisaurus petrolicus.[2]
A supposed second species, K. "gigantus", was mentioned in a popular book as being a 21-meter (69 foot) long vertebral column from the
Classification
Kelmayisaurus had been thought to be a carcharodontosaurians, but they are also seen in large megalosauroids like Megalosaurus and Torvosaurus.[9]
In 2011, a redescription of the holotype by Stephen L. Brusatte, Roger B.J. Benson and Xing Xu found Kelmayisaurus to be valid genus of
derived carcharodontosaurids.[1]
References
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- ^ Dong, Z. (1973). "Dinosaurs from Wuerho". Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica. 11: 45–52.
- ISBN 0-921912-46-3.
- ^ Mortimer, M. (21 July 2003). "And the largest theropod is..." Dinosaur Mailing List (Mailing list). Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ^ Greenfield, T. (11 February 2021). "What is Kelmayisaurus "gigantus"?". Incertae Sedis. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
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- ISBN 0-520-06726-6.
- ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
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