Ngexisaurus

Say it: ngek-see-SORE-us

Name means: “lizard from Ngexi”1

Ate: MeatMeat-eating dinosMiddle Jurassic

Ngexisaurus was a meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Tibet, China, during the Middle Jurassic period. It was a fast, two-legged hunter that probably chased after small prey.2 1

Lived

175 to 162 million years ago2

Middle Jurassic

Fossils found in

Dabuka, Daye, Tibet, China2 1

Food

Meat2

Height

1 to 10 m2

from PBDB adult height range (1.0 to <10 m, likely a coarse estimate)

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How tall was it?

from PBDB adult height range (1.0 to <10 m, likely a coarse estimate)

as tall as 2 giraffes standing on each other

cool stuff

Fun facts

Ngexisaurus is an informal name for a dinosaur that has not been fully described by scientists yet.1

The type species is called Ngexisaurus dapukaensis, named by Zhao Xijin in 1983.1 2

Ngexisaurus lived during the Middle Jurassic, about 174 to 161 million years ago.2

Some scientists think Ngexisaurus might be a type of megalosaurid, a group of large meat-eating dinosaurs.1

Ngexisaurus is known only from fossils found in the Dapuka Group in Tibet, China.1 2

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Scientific name: Ngexisaurus
Named by: Zhao 19832
Group: Meat-eating dinos
Family / clade: Coelurosauria2
Classification: Theropoda2
Age of the rocks: 175 to 162 million years (Aalenian / Callovian)2
Countries: China2
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database2
Discovery: Ngexisaurus was named by Chinese paleontologist Zhao Xijin in 1983, based on fossils from the Dapuka Group in Tibet.1 2
Still debated: Scientists are not sure exactly which group of theropod dinosaurs Ngexisaurus belongs to, because its fossils are incomplete.1

Where the facts come from

List of informally named dinosaurs (en.wikipedia.org)
Ngexisaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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