This article is about the feathered dinosaur. For other uses, see Dilong (disambiguation).
Dilong paradoxus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 126 Ma
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Skeleton cast mount at Milwaukee Public Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
Saurischia
Clade:
Theropoda
Clade:
†Pantyrannosauria
Genus:
†Dilong Xu et al., 2004
Species:
†D. paradoxus
Binomial name
†Dilong paradoxus
Xu et al., 2004
Dilong (帝龍, which means 'emperor dragon') is a genus of basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur.[1] The only species in this genus is Dilong paradoxus. It is from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation near Lujiatun, Beipiao, in the western Liaoning province of China. It lived about 126 million years ago.[2] This theropod discovery was significant as it was one of the first tyrannosauroids with fossil evidence of simple feathers.[3]
^Juan D. Porfiri; Fernando E. Novas; Jorge O. Calvo; Federico L. Agnolín; Martín D. Ezcurra; Ignacio A. Cerda (2014). "Juvenile specimen of Megaraptor (Dinosauria, Theropoda) sheds light about tyrannosauroid radiation". Cretaceous Research. 51: 35–55. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2014.04.007. hdl:11336/12129.
^Chang, S.-C.; Gao, K.-Q.; Zhou, Z.-F.; Jourdan, F. (2017). "New chronostratigraphic constraints on the Yixian Formation with implications for the Jehol Biota". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 487: 399–406. Bibcode:2017PPP...487..399C. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.09.026.
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Contrast the feathered tyrannosaurid Dilongparadoxus that was named from Chinese dilong 帝龍 "emperor dragon". Chinese dilong or Japanese chiryū 地龍 is the name...
and caenagnathids, but was not present in basal tyrannosauroids like Dilongparadoxus, indicating convergent evolution. Tyrannosaurus was named by Henry...
tyrannosauroid that is more derived than basal taxa, such as Guanlong and Dilong, but more primitive than members of the more derived Tyrannosauridae. The...
(also including Eotyrannus) of basal tyrannosauroids more advanced than Dilong. However, in 2013 Loewen et al. published a cladogram placing Juratyrant...
it is not significantly younger than primitive tyrannosauroids such as Dilong, it is similar in size to later forms such as Tyrannosaurus. It was much...
excluded, as was Eotyrannus from England. Earlier tyrannosaurs, such as Dilong and Guanlong, had not been described at the time this analysis was performed...
Juratyrant as tyrannosauroids slightly more advanced than Proceratosauridae and Dilong. In addition, Eotyrannus is recovered as a sister taxon of these genera...
had feathers or protofeathers include Pedopenna daohugouensis and Dilongparadoxus, a tyrannosauroid which is 60 to 70 million years older than Tyrannosaurus...
feathers, have been reported in the small-bodied, basal tyrannosauroid Dilongparadoxus from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China in 2004. Because...
forelimbs. This is in contrast with more basal tyrannosauroids such as Dilong, which retained features characteristic of more basal coelurosaurs such...
Aviatyrannis. 2004 Xu and others described the new genus and species Dilongparadoxus. 2005 T. D. Carr, T. E. Williamson, D. R. Schwimmer described the new...
Liaoningosaurus paradoxus, is known from more than 20 specimens, with some representing juveniles. It was named in 2001 by Xu, Wang and You. L. paradoxus was unusual...
(Caudipteryx zou, C. dongi, Incisivosaurus gauthieri), Tyrannosauroidea (Dilongparadoxus, D. sp.). (their list does not include taxa described later, as Yutyrannus)...
as well as many birds and feathered dinosaurs. Discoveries such as Dilongparadoxus, another feathered theropod, date to the early Cretaceous Period. This...
Shenzhousaurus orientalis and Hexing qingyi; the proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid Dilongparadoxus; the titanosauriform sauropod Euhelopus sp., based on teeth; the ornithopod...
sauropod, Koshisaurus katsuyama, a hadrosauroid ornithischian, Fukuivenator paradoxus, a therizinosaurian theropod, and Fukuipteryx prima, an avialan as defined...
M.; Miyata, K.; Xu, X.; Azuma, Y. (2021). "OSTEOLOGY OF FUKUIVENATOR PARADOXUS: A BIZARRE MANIRAPTORAN THEROPOD FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS OF FUKUI, JAPAN"...
Genus Species County Member Material Notes Images Dilong D. paradoxus Beipiao Lujiatun & Jianshangou Bed Rare A tyrannosauroid Grallator lower Jianshangou...
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