Shaochilong
Shaochilong maortuensis
Shaochilong (meaning "shark toothed dragon") is an extinct genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian to Albian stages) Miaogou Formation of China, though a more restrictive suggestion from the Aptian to the Albian has been suggested based on faunal composition. It was usually described as a carcharodontosaurid, but other phylogenies have suggested a different position as a tyrannosauroid or as a member of polytomic allosauroid. The genus contains a single species, Shaochilong maortuensis, which was originally placed in the genus Chilantaisaurus as C. maortuensis, but was re-described and reclassified in 2009.
- Family
- Carcharodontosauridae
- Order
- Saurischia
- Period
- Cretaceous (121.4–121.4 Ma)
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- 5.0–6.0 m
- Weight
- 800 kg
- Type locality
- Ulansuhai Formation, Inner Mongolia, China
- Holotype
- IVPP V2885.1-5
- PBDB
- txn:161116