The genus Beipiaoserphus gen. nov. is established and referred to Mesoserphidae with Beipiaoserphus elegans sp. nov. as its type species. The type specimens were collected from the lower part of the Upper Jura...The genus Beipiaoserphus gen. nov. is established and referred to Mesoserphidae with Beipiaoserphus elegans sp. nov. as its type species. The type specimens were collected from the lower part of the Upper Jurassic Yixian Formation at Huangbanjigou Village near Shangyuan Town, Beipiao, Liaoning Province, China and are housed at Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, Nanjing.展开更多
The next time people see a science fiction film like Hollywood's Jurassic Park, dinosaurs in the movie may look very different, especially the Tyrannosaurus rex. They could be feathered. Recently, paleontologists di...The next time people see a science fiction film like Hollywood's Jurassic Park, dinosaurs in the movie may look very different, especially the Tyrannosaurus rex. They could be feathered. Recently, paleontologists discovered fossils of a new tyrannosauroid species from the Middle-Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous deposits of northeast China's Liaoning Province.展开更多
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文摘The genus Beipiaoserphus gen. nov. is established and referred to Mesoserphidae with Beipiaoserphus elegans sp. nov. as its type species. The type specimens were collected from the lower part of the Upper Jurassic Yixian Formation at Huangbanjigou Village near Shangyuan Town, Beipiao, Liaoning Province, China and are housed at Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, Nanjing.
文摘The next time people see a science fiction film like Hollywood's Jurassic Park, dinosaurs in the movie may look very different, especially the Tyrannosaurus rex. They could be feathered. Recently, paleontologists discovered fossils of a new tyrannosauroid species from the Middle-Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous deposits of northeast China's Liaoning Province.