Zuolong
Field photograph to come
Zuolong
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- Lived
- 162 to 155 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Choiniere et al. 2010
Field notes
About Zuolong
Zuolong was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Jurassic, 162 to 155 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Zuolong, from China. Its fossils come from the Shishugou Formation. It was named by Choiniere et al. in 2010.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
160 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Coelurosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. N. Choiniere, J. M. Clark, and C. A. Forster, X. Xu. 2010. A basal coelurosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) of the Shishugou Formation in Wucaiwan, People's Republic of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6):1773-1796