Tugulusaurus

Tu-gul-sore-us.
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Name

Tugulusaurus ‭(‬Tugulu lizard‭)‬.

Phonetic

Tu-gul-sore-us.

Named By

Z.‭ ‬Dong‭ ‬-‭ ‬1973.

Classification

Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauria,‭ ‬Saurischia,‭ ‬Theropoda,‭ ‬Coelurosauria.

Diet

Unknown.

Species

T.‭ ‬faciles‭

Size

Unknown.

Known locations

China‭ ‬-‭ ‬Lianmugin Formation.

Time Period

Aptian of the Cretaceous.

Fossil representation

Partial post cranial skeleton.

In Depth

       Tugulusaurus is a little known genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in China during the early Cretaceous.‭ ‬Sometimes considered to be a dubious genus,‭ ‬Tugulusaurus has been re-affirmed as valid as recently as the early twenty-first century.‭ ‬Tugulusaurus is usually attributed as a coelurosaurian theropod,‭ ‬though the‭ ‬original describer Dong Zhiming speculated that it might have been an ornithomimid.

Further Reading

-‭ [‬Dinosaurs from Wuerho‭]‬.‭ ‬Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang‭ (‬II‭)‬:‭ ‬Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho,‭ ‬Sinkiang.‭ – ‬Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,‭ ‬Academia Sinica‭ ‬11:45-52.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Z.‭ ‬Dong‭ ‬-‭ ‬1973. -‭ ‬The small theropod dinosaurs Tugulusaurus and Phaedrolosaurus from the Early Cretaceous of Xinjiang,‭ ‬China.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology‭ ‬25‭ (‬1‭)‬:‭ ‬107‭–‬118.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Oliver W.M.‭ ‬Rauhut‭ & ‬Xu Xing‭ ‬-‭ ‬2005.

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