Chilantaisaurus
Theropod dinosaur genus from the Late Cretaceous period / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chilantaisaurus | |
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Skeleton reconstruction of Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avetheropoda |
Genus: | †Chilantaisaurus Hu, 1964 |
Species: | †C. tashuikouensis |
Binomial name | |
†Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensis Hu, 1964 | |
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Chilantaisaurus ("Jilantai Salt Lake [zh] lizard"[1]) is a genus of large theropod dinosaur, possibly a neovenatorid or a primitive coelurosaur, from the Late Cretaceous Ulansuhai Formation of China (Turonian age, about 92 million years ago). The type species, C. tashuikouensis, was described by Hu in 1964.