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sharp-clawed runner
Xuanhanosaurus
Say it like this: “SHWEN-HAHN-o-SAWR-us”
Xuanhanosaurus qilixiaensis
Xuanhanosaurus ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago
- Named in
- 1984 · Dong, Z.
- Hip height
- 1 m · 3 ft
- Length
- 4.8 m · 16 ft
- Weight
- 265 kg · 584 lb
- Found in
- China · Shaximiao
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Tetanurae
The story in short
In 1984, Z. Dong published the name Xuanhanosaurus. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian), roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Shaximiao Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Xuanhanosaurus at a length near 4.8 m, hips about 1 m high, and a body mass around 265 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Tetanurae, among the theropod dinosaurs.