CHINGKANKOUSAURUS
a dubious meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China.
Pronunciation: jin-GAHN-koo-SOR-us
Meaning: Ching-kang-k'ou lizard
Author/s: Young (
1958)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Shandong, China
Discovery Chart Position: #203
Chingkankousaurus fragilis
(Fragile Ching-kang-k'ou Lizard)Etymology
Chingkankousaurus is derived from the Wade-Giles "Ching-kang-k'ou" (Chinese Pinyin: "Jin-gan-kou", referring to Jingankou village) and the Greek "sauros" (lizard).
The
species epithet,
fragilis, means "fragile" in Latin.
Discovery
The remains of
Chingkankousaurus were discovered in rocks of the Wangshi Series at Jingankou (Chingkankou) Village, Shandong province in eastern China.
The
holotype (IVPP V836) is a partial right shoulder blade, which, according to Young, "basically resembles that of
Allosaurus but is smaller".
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Santonian-Campanian
Age range: 85-75 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Carnivore
Chingkankousaurus
fragilis
References
• Young CC (1958) "The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shantung".
Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, 42(16): 1-138.
• Brusatte SL, Hone DWE and Xu X (2013) "Phylogenetic revision of Chingkankousaurus fragilis, a forgotten tyrannosauroid specimen from the Late Cretaceous of China". In Parrish, Molnar, Currie and Koppelhus (eds.) "
Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology".
• Holtz, Thomas R. Jr. (2004). "Tyrannosauroidea". Page 124 in Weishampel, Dodson and Osmolska (eds.) "
The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
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