Yangchuanosaurus
Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis
Pronounced:
yang-Schwan-o-Saw-rus
Diet:
Carnivore
(Meat-Eater)
Name
Means:
"Yangchuan
Lizard"
Length:
35 feet
(11 m)
Height:
14 feet
(4.5 m)
Weight:
3.5 tons
(3,150
kilos)
Time:
Late
Jurassic-150
million
years
ago
Fossil remains for this
Dinosaur have been found in Asia
This was a very large, ferocious meat-eater from China. Yangchaunosaurus lived at the end of the Jurassic Period and would have been around to hunt some of the large sauropods that lived in Asia at the same time.
There has
been some
discussion
about
whether
Yangchuanosaurus
belongs in
the
megalosaur
family or
that of the
allosaurs,
with which
it was more
closely
associated.
Opinion
tends to
lean towards
the allosaur
line. To
date, there
are two, and
possibly
three, other
species
assigned to
this genus.
It may have
had a
cranial
crest. |
