Aorun

DV-0843 · type species Aorun zhaoi

Lived: 165 to 162 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
Diet: Carnivore
Group: Theropods
Found in: China
Named by: Choiniere et al. 2013

Field notes

About Aorun

Aorun was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Middle Jurassic, 165 to 162 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Aorun, from China. Its fossils come from the Shishugou Formation. It was named by Choiniere et al. in 2013.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

165 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Alvarezsauria.

ShishugounykusLate Jurassic

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. N. Choiniere, J. M. Clark, and C. A. Forster, M. A. Norell, D. A. Eberth G. M. Erickson, H. Chu, X. Xu. 2013. A juvenile specimen of a new coelurosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle-Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology