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XIONGGUANLONG
(zhong-gwan-long)
meaning: "Xiongguan dragon"
Xiongguanlong
Named By: Li et al. in 2010
Time Period: Early Cretaceous, 112 Ma
Location: China, Gansu Province
Size: Estimated about 4-4.5 meters long
Diet: unavailable
Fossil(s): Skull and partial postcranial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Coelurosauria | Tyrannosauroidea |
About

Xiongguanlong is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous of what is now China. The type species is X. baimoensis, described online in 2009 by a group of researchers from China and the United States, and formally published in January 2010. The genus name refers to the city of Jiayuguan, a city in northwestern China. The specific name is derived from bai mo, "white ghost", after the "white ghost castle", a rock formation near the fossil site. The fossils include a skull, vertebrae, a right ilium and the right femur. The rocks it was found in are from the Aptian to Albian stages of the Cretaceous, between 125 and 100 million years ago.

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