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
Gallery
Gasosaurus/Gallery