Gasosaurus | ||||
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Name | Gasosaurus | |||
Order | Saurischia | |||
Suborder | Theropoda | |||
Class | Carnosauria | |||
Name Translation | Gas lizard | |||
Period | Mid-Late Jurassic | |||
Location | China | |||
Diet | Meat | |||
Size | 12 ft (4 m) | |||
Gasosaurus was a theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China. It was named when Chinese natural gas miners found a partial skeleton and brought it to paleontologist Don Zhiming. Gas could also mean "make trouble" in Chinese.
Discovery and naming
Description
Classification
Paleoecology
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- Middle Jurassic Dinosaurs
- Small Carnivores
- Allosaurs
- Carnosaurs
- Carnivores
- Dinosaurs of Asia
- Prehistoric animals of Asia
- Extinct animals of Asia
- Jurassic dinosaurs
- Dinosaurs of China
- Extinct animals of China
- Taxa named by Dong Zhiming
- Fossil taxa described in 1985
- Late Jurassic dinosaurs
- Late Jurassic extinctions
- Predators
- Theropods
- Dinosaurs
- Animals
- Creatures of the Jurassic Park Institute Website
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