Banji
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For the village in Iran, see Banji, Iran.
Not to be confused with Banjee.
Banji is an extinct genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived approximately 66 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now China. It was a small, lightly built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, that was an estimated 65 cm (2.1 ft) long, as a juvenile.
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Banji | |
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Skull from the holotype specimen | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Oviraptoridae |
Genus: | †Banji Xu & Han, 2010 |
Species: | †B. long |
Binomial name | |
†Banji long Xu & Han, 2010 | |
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