Jinbeisaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Tyrannoraptora |
Superfamily: | †Tyrannosauroidea |
Clade: | †Pantyrannosauria |
Genus: | †Jinbeisaurus Wu et al., 2019 |
Type species | |
†Jinbeisaurus wangi Wu et al., 2019
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Jinbeisaurus (meaning "northern Shanxi Province lizard" after Shanxi Province in China) is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Huiquanpu Formation from Shanxi Province in China. The type and only species is Jinbeisaurus wangi. It is the first non-avian theropod known from Shanxi.[1] Analysis of the specimen indicates that Jinbeisaurus is more derived than related tyrannosauroids such as Xiongguanlong and phylogenetically more advanced than Suskityrannus, to which it has been compared.
Jinbeisaurus was originally seen as a juvenile specimen of Tarbosaurus.[citation needed]