Yangchuanosaurus

Yangchuanosaurus is an extinct genus of metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in China from the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous periods (Bathonian to Berriasian stages), and was similar in size and appearance to its North American and European relative, Allosaurus. Yangchuanosaurus hails from the Upper Shaximiao Formation and Suining Formation and was the largest predator in a landscape that included the sauropods Mamenchisaurus and Omeisaurus and the stegosaurs Chialingosaurus, Tuojiangosaurus and Chungkingosaurus. This theropod was named after the area in which was discovered, Yongchuan, in China.

Yangchuanosaurus
Temporal range: Bathonian to Berriasian,
Y. shangyouensis skeleton displayed in Hong Kong Science Museum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: Metriacanthosauridae
Genus: Yangchuanosaurus
Dong et al., 1978
Type species
Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis
Dong et al., 1978
Other species
  • Y. zigongensis
    (Gao, 1993)
Synonyms
Synonyms of Y. shangyouensis
  • Yangchuanosaurus magnus
    Dong, Zhou & Zhang, 1983
  • Szechuanosaurus "yandonensis"
    Dong et al., 1978
  • "Szechuanoraptor dongi"
    Chure, 2001
Synonyms of Y. zigongensis
  • Szechuanosaurus zigongensis
    Gao, 1993
  • Metriacanthosaurus carpenteri
    Paul, 1988
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