Restoration of Shaochilong preying on Sinornithomimus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
Saurischia
Clade:
Theropoda
Family:
†Carcharodontosauridae
Genus:
†Shaochilong Brusatte et al., 2009
Species:
†S. maortuensis
Binomial name
†Shaochilong maortuensis
(Hu, 1964)
Synonyms
"Alashansaurus" Chure, 2000 (nomen nudum)
Shaochilong (meaning "shark toothed dragon") is an extinct genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur from the mid-Cretaceous (Late Cenomanian to the end of the Turonian stage) Ulansuhai Formation of China (about 92 million years ago). The type species, S. maortuensis, was originally named Chilantaisaurus maortuensis, but was re-described and reclassified in 2009.[1][2] It was one of the last known carcharodontosaurids to walk the earth. Alongside Mapusaurus from Argentina, they were the only members of the family to live until the end of the Turonian epoch.
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Shaochilong (meaning "shark toothed dragon") is an extinct genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur from the mid-Cretaceous (Late Cenomanian to the end of...
possibility that Chilantaisaurus was the same animal as the carnosaur Shaochilong, which is from the same geological formation. However, they did note...
in North America (Acrocanthosaurus), Europe (Concavenator) and Asia (Shaochilong). Carcharodontosaurids range throughout the Cretaceous from the Barremian...
Indosaurus and "Chilantaisaurus" maortuensis, later made the separate genus Shaochilong. Labocania was considered as a possible tyrannosauroid in the 2004 review...
carcharodontosaurid as the sister taxon to the clade formed by Labocania and Shaochilong. Coria, Rodolfo A.; Currie, Philip J.; Ortega, Francisco; Baiano, Mattia...
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