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Phaedrolosaurus (meaning "elated lizard") is a dubious genus of coelurosaurian (perhaps dromaeosaurid) theropod dinosaur, based on an isolated and non-diagnostic tooth from the Early Cretaceous Lianmuqin Formation of Wuerho, in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China.

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Dromaeosauridae
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taxon name
Phaedrolosaurus
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genus
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  • Discovery and naming
  • Description
  • Classification
  • Etymology
  • Paleoecology
  • Contemporary Biota
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Phaedrolosaurus (meaning "elated lizard") is a dubious genus of coelurosaurian (perhaps dromaeosaurid) theropod dinosaur, based on an isolated and non-diagnostic tooth from the Early Cretaceous Lianmuqin Formation of Wuerho, in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China.

==Discovery and naming== In 1963, geologists were exploring the rocks of the Lianmuqin Formation near the town of Wuerho located within the Junggar Basin of northern Uyghurstan, and they discovered numerous dinosaur fossils. The fossils were excavated in 1964 and brought to the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) for study.

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