Kelmayisaurus
Sign in to saveKelmayisaurus (meaning "Karamay lizard") is an extinct genus of carcharodontosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was roughly long and its name refers to the petroleum-producing city of Karamay in the Xinjiang province of western China near where it was found.
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Kelmayisaurus (meaning "Karamay lizard") is an extinct genus of carcharodontosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was roughly 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 holotype and only specimen IVPP V 4022. It consists of a complete left dentary with teeth and partial left maxilla. The specimen was found during the early 1970s in the Lianmuqin Formation of the Tugulu Group, dating to the Valanginian-Albian stages between 140 and 100 million years ago. The discovery locality is near Wuerho in the Junggar Basin. It was first named and described by Chinese paleontologist Dong Zhiming in 1973 and the type species is Kelmayisaurus petrolicus.