Zuolong
Sign in to saveZuolong (International Phonetic Alphabet|) is an extinct genus of tetanuran theropod from the Late Jurassic period of China. The type and only species is Z. salleei. The generic name of Zuolong is in honor of General Zuo Zōngtáng (also known as "General Tso") with the Chinese word "long" which means dragon. The specific epithet "salleei" is in honor of Hilmar Sallee, who funded the expedition which led to the specimen's discovery.
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13 sectionsContents
- Discovery
- Description
- Skull
- Post-Cranial Skeleton
- Classification
- As a Basal Coelurosaur
- As a Basal Maniraptoromorph
- As a Basal Tetanuran
- Paleoecology
- Paleoenvironment
- Contemporary Fauna
- See also
- References
Zuolong (International Phonetic Alphabet|) is an extinct genus of tetanuran theropod from the Late Jurassic period of China. The type and only species is Z. salleei. The generic name of Zuolong is in honor of General Zuo Zōngtáng (also known as "General Tso") with the Chinese word "long" which means dragon. The specific epithet "salleei" is in honor of Hilmar Sallee, who funded the expedition which led to the specimen's discovery.
==Discovery== Zuolong was discovered in the upper part of the Wucaiwan member of the Shishugou Formation in Xinjiang, China. 40Ar/39Ar dating of volcanic feldspar at this locality places it at the span between the Callovian and Oxfordian boundary, and Zuolong was discovered in the upper part of this unit, which is interpreted as being Oxfordian in age. The specimen was discovered in 2001 by the Sino-American field expedition, but it was not described until 2010 when Jonah Choiniere, James Clark, Catherine Forester, and Xu Xing published a full analysis of the bones.