Guanlong
Guanlong wucaii
Guanlong (Chinese: 冠龍; lit. 'crown dragon') is an extinct genus of proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) Shishugou Formation of China. It was first described in 2006 by Xu Xing and colleagues, who found it to represent a new taxon related to Tyrannosaurus. Two individuals are currently known, consisting of a partially complete adult and a nearly complete juvenile.
- Family
- Proceratosauridae
- Order
- Saurischia
- Period
- Jurassic (163.5–157.3 Ma)
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- 3.0–3.5 m
- Weight
- 50–70 kg
- Type locality
- Shishugou Formation, Xinjiang, China
- Holotype
- IVPP V14531
- PBDB
- txn:71190