#Tyrannosauroid Superfamily

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"...THE SKULL AND PELVIS PLACE IT IN THE TYRANNOSAUROID SUPERFAMILY. LIKE MANY OTHER THEROPODS, IT ALMOST CERTAINLY HAD FEATHERS."

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1387x1387x1913 -- Spotlight on the Guanlong wucaii, a small to mid-sized early tyrannosaur and a member of the family Proceratosauridae. Unlike your typical tyrannosaur, Guanlong wucaii had long arms and three-fingered hands for grabbing and ripping. But the shape of its teeth, and features in the skull and pelvis place it in the tyrannosauroid superfamily. Like many other theropods, it almost certainly had feathers. Artwork by William Stout, c. 2009.

Genus: Guanlong 

Species: wucaii 

Family: Proceratosauridae 

Super Family: Tyrannosauroidea 

Suborder: Theropoda 

Order: Saurischia

Superorder: Dinosauria 

Class: Reptilia

Subphylum: Vertebrata 

Phylum: Chordata 

Kingdom: Animalia

Pronounced GWON-long woo-kay-eye

INTRODUCTION: "Named from the Chinese words guan, meaning "crown," and long, meaning "dragon," in reference to its flashy head-crest, the most elaborate of any known theropod dinosaur. The species name comes from the Chinese word wucai meaning "five colours" and refers to the multi-hued rocks at Wucaiwan, the badlands where the fossils were found.

Guanlong wucaii is one of the most primitive tyrannosaurs known. It hunted its prey 95 million years before T. rex lived."

-- AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, Dinosaurs and their Relatives/Dinosaur Fact Sheets

Source: www.pinterest.com/pin/504614333230272954 & https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/guanlong-wucaii.

[netmassimo]

An article published in the journal "Communications Biology" reports the identification of a new species of tyrannosauroid, the superfamily of carnivorous dinosaurs the famous T.rex belongs to. A team of researchers examined a very incomplete skeleton dating back to about 96 million years ago and named the species, which lived in today's Utah, Moros intrepidus. It's the oldest tyrannosauroid discovered so far in North America and this can help to understand the evolution of these dinosaurs in the larger forms that lived later.