First report of theropod materials enriches the dinosaur assemblages in Guangxi and expands the dinosaur distribution to the southernmost China

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Xu-ri Wang: Writing - review & editing, Writing original draft, supervision, project administration, investigation, funding acquisition, conceptualization. Shu-bin Ju: Writing - original draft, visualization. Yan-nan Ji: investigation. Zhen Guo: Investigation. Qiang Ji: Supervision,project administration, investigation, funding acquisition.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgements

This work is supported by China Geological Survey (DD20230221) and Department of Natural Resources of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GXZC2022-C3-001314-GXCJ).

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