Xinjiangovenator

Xinjiangovenator (meaning "Xinjiang hunter") is a genus of coelurosauriandinosaur of the Valanginian to Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous period.
The remains of Xinjiangovenator were found in the Lianmuqin Formation of Wuerho, Xinjiang, China, and were first described by Dong Zhiming in 1973. Based on holotype IVPP 4024-2, an articulated partial right lower leg, containing the tibia, three pieces of the fibula, the calcaneum and the astragalus, it was originally thought to be another specimen of Phaedrolosaurus.[1] However, Phaedrolosaurusis based only on a non-diagnostic tooth, so the hindlimb bones were given their own genus by Oliver Rauhut and Xu Xing in 2005. The type species is Xinjiangovenator parvus. The generic name is derived from the autonomous region of Xinjiang and Latin venator, "hunter". The specific name parvus means "small" in Latin.[2]