SciNews has a story about the discovery of a new dinosaur in China.  The unnamed animal lived between 70 and 67 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period, in what is now the Sanshui Basin in the northwestern part of the Pearl River Delta in South China.  It represents the first lambeosaurine known from South China.  Find the details in a paper published in the journal Historical Biology.

The fragmentary skeleton of a single hadrosaurid individual was unearthed at the Taipinggang site of the Dalangshan Formation near Zhaoqing city, Guangdong province, China.

The specimen is between 70 and 67 million years old (Maastrichtian age), and includes vertebrae, a humerus, ilium, femur and tibia.

“The specimen was collected from the Sanshui Basin in the northwestern part of the Pearl River Delta in South China, which is the closest inland basin to the South China Sea in the South China Land Source,” said China University of Geosciences paleontologist Donghao Wang and colleagues.

“A large area of Upper Cretaceous layers divided into two large depositional zones, occurs within it.”