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Dinosaurs C

CHILANTAISAURUS maortuensis
   
DESCRIBER Hu,1964
TIME Cretaceous Early
Albian
CLASSIFICATION Saurischia Theropoda Tetanurae Carnosauria Allosauridae  
DIET Carnivore
FOSSILSITE Lower Ulansuhai Formation of Dashuigou Group, Nei Mongol Zizhiqu, China
FALL UNDER CHILANTAISAURUS
LENGTH
INFO Chilantaisaurus > C. maortuensis (Hu,1964) C.tashuikouensis (1964) ? C. sibiricus (=Allosaurus sibiricus) Riabinin,1914

Partial skull and postcranial skeleton.

Holotype- (IVP AS 2885) (skull ~580 mm) maxilla, quadrates (lost), frontals, posterior skull, (cervical column ~995 mm) axis (~70 mm, lost), six caudal vertebrae (90, 70, 75, 85, 95 mm; one lost) Diagnosis- twelve maxillary teeth; small fused maxillary interdental plates; no groove for dental artery at base of interdental plates; no lingual bar on maxilla; thick frontals; subnarial process of frontals forms a deep trough; supratemporal fossa makes small contribution to frontal; sagittal crest on frontals and parietals; large cylindrical pneumatic cavity in posterior nasals; no quadratojugal foramen; helical groove absent in distal quadrate; paroccipital processes extend below occipital condyle; braincase short and
highly pneumatized; axis short with erect neural spine.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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