Xiongguanlong Xiongguanlong
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Xiongguanlong 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Xiongguanlong (International Phonetic Alphabet|) is an extinct genus of tyrannosauroid theropod from the Early Cretaceous period of what is now China. The type and only species is X. baimoensis. The generic name comes from Jiayuguan City (formerly called “Xiong Guan” or “grand pass”) and the Mandarin word “long” which means dragon. The specific epithet, “baimoensis” is a latinization of the Mandarin word for “white ghost” in reference to one of the geological features of the type locality (nicknamed the “White Ghost Castle”).
What we know
- Named by Li et al., 2009.
- Body length estimated at about 5 m.
- Fossils found in China.