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Carcharodontosauridae

Kelmayisaurus

"Karamay lizard"

Generic theropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kelmayisaurus 12 m (39 ft) long
as long as 7 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic theropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Kelmayisaurus
Length
12 m (39 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (140–100.5 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Carnivore
Clade
Carcharodontosauridae

Kelmayisaurus (meaning “Karamay lizard”) is an extinct genus of carcharodontosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was roughly 10 – long and its name refers to the petroleum-producing city of Karamay in the Xinjiang province of western China near where it was found.

What we know

  • Named by Dong, 1973.
  • Body length estimated at about 12 m.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Kelmayisaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.