Feathered Dinosaur

• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 生物学
• 关键词: 古生物学 翼龙 考古工作 中国
• 年，卷（期）: 2005,（1）
• 页码范围: 8
• 页数: 1页
• 分类号: Q915.86

摘要

Paleontologists have unearthed fossils of the tyrannosaurodea dating back 139-128 million years at Lujiatun, Beipiao City, Liaoning Province in northeast China. Professor Xu Xing, research fellow at the Chinese Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), has named the creature Dilong paradoxus gen. et sp. nov.The new basal tyrannosauroid from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation found in western Liaoning is small and gracile with relatively long front limbs and three-fingered""hands.""