Alectrosaurus
Sign in to saveAlectrosaurus (; meaning "alone lizard") is a genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about some 96 million years ago in what is now the Iren Dabasu Formation.
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- Alectrosaurus Skeleton Reconstruction.jpg
- Length
- 5.0
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- taxon name
- Alectrosaurus
- Commons category
- Alectrosaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- start time
- 95000000-0
- end time
- 80000000-0
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- China
- main food source
- carnivore
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- Paleobiology
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Alectrosaurus (; meaning "alone lizard") is a genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about some 96 million years ago in what is now the Iren Dabasu Formation.
It was a medium-sized, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, estimated at with a body shape similar to its much larger advanced relative, Tyrannosaurus. Alectrosaurus was a very fast running tyrannosauroid as indicated by the elongated hindlimbs that likely filled the niche of a pursuit predator, a trait that seems to be lost by the advanced and robust tyrannosaurids, in adulthood.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alectrosaurus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.