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ALECTROSAURUS (1)
 
DESCRIBER Gilmore,1933
TIME Cretaceous Late
?Cenomanian Turonian Coniacian Santonian Campanian ? Maastrichtian
CLASSIFICATION Saurischia Theropoda Tyrannosauria Tyrannosauridae Aublysodontinae  
DIET Carnivore
FOSSILSITE China Mongolia
TYPE SOECIES ALECTROSAURUS olseni (1) See also Albertosaurus olseni
LENGTH 5 meter
INFO Alectrosaurus > A.olseni

"The unusually large size of the humerus and the enormously long claws are so unlike any known Upper Cretaceous deinodont as to at once set the animal off as a new type of theropod dinosaur." While most of the skeletal material originally described by Gilmore belongs to a medium-sized tyrannosaur, the large clawed forelimbs that inspired the name come from an unidentified segnosaur. Later discoveries have shown that Alectrosaurus had small forelimbs like other tyrannosaurs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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