Tugulusaurus
"Tugulu lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tugulusaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Tugulusaurus (meaning “Tugulu lizard”) is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur, belonging to the Alvarezsauroidea, that is known from the Early Cretaceous Tugulu Group in the Urhe area of China. It was one of the first members of Alvarezsauria ever discovered. The type and only known species is T. faciles.
What we know
- Named by Dong, 1973.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Tugulusaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.