Dinosaur: Dilong paradoxus
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Length*: | 1.8 m | 5.9 ft |
Weight*: | 15 kg | 33 lb |
Speed: | 40 km/h | 25 mph |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Late Barremian-Early Aptian
Details
Status: valid
Autor: Xu et al.
Year: 2004
Area: Asia
Country: China
Region: Liaoning
Formation: Yixian
Other
Material: Three (or two ?) partial skeletons with skulls and partial skull.
References: Xu, Norell, Kuang, Wang, Zhao and Jia, (2004). Basal tyrannosauroids from China and evidence for protofeathers in tyrannosauroids.
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