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GUANLONG
(gwon-long)
meaning: "Crown dragon"
Guanlong
Named By: Xu et al. in 2006
Time Period: Late Jurassic, 160 Ma
Location: China - Shishugou Formation
Size: 3 meters long
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Two specimens, one almost complete partially articulated adult, one almost complete and fully articulated juvenile
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Proceratosauridae |
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Guanlong (Guan Long ) is a genus of extinct proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid from the Late Jurassic of China. The taxon was first described in 2006 by Xu et al., who found it to represent a new taxon related to Tyrannosaurus. The name is derived from Chinese, translating as "five colored crowned dragon". Two individuals are currently known, a partially complete adult and a nearly complete juvenile. These specimens come from the Oxfordian period, of the Chinese Shishugou Formation.

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