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TIMURLENGIA
(tim-ur-len-ge-ah)
meaning: "named after Timurleng, founder of the Timurid Empire"
Named By: Stephen L. Brusatte, Alexander Averianov, HansinDieter Sues, Amy Muir & Ian B. Butler in 2016
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 90 Ma
Location: Uzbekistan - Bissekty Formation
Size: Roughly estimated at about 3.5 meter long for the holotype, but this is possibly of a sub adult, and does not reflect the true adult size of the genus
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Partial skull, lower jaw, vertebrae, teeth and claws
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Coelurosauria | Tyrannosauroidea |
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Timurlengia is an extinct genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur found in Uzbekistan, in the Bissekty Formation in the Kyzylkum Desert, hailing from the Turonian age of the early Late Cretaceous. The type species is Timurlengia euotica.

Read more about Timurlengia at Wikipedia
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