Tugulusaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0220Lianmuqin Fm., China

Tugulusaurus

DV-0220

Lived
137 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet
Carnivore
Group
Theropods
Found in
China
Named by
Dong 1973

Field notes

About Tugulusaurus

Tugulusaurus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 137 to 101 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Tugulusaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Lianmuqin Formation. It was named by Dong in 1973.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

120 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Alvarezsauroidea.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: Z. Dong. 1973. [Dinosaurs from Wuerho]. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica 11:45-52