CHIENKOSAURUS
a dubious meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China.
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Meaning:
Author/s: Young (
1942)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Sichuan, China
Discovery Chart Position: #181
Chienkosaurus ceratosauroides
Discovery
The only remains of
Chienkosaurus were discovered at "Locality 47" in the Shangshaximiao Formation, (Guangyuan/Kuangyuan Group), in the hill slopes under the Chentsianyen Escarpment, Jiang County, Guangyuan prefecture-level City, Sichuan Province, China, by Meinian Bien, Hengtai Mi and C.C. Young, during the late spring of 1941.
The
holotype (IVPP V237) is a single tooth. There were initially four teeth, but Dong assigned three of them to the crocodile
Hsisosuchus in 1983.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian
Age range: 162-155 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Carnivore
Chienkosaurus
ceratosauroides
References
• Yang Zhongjian - aka CC (Chung Chien) Young (1942) "Fossil vertebrates from Kuangyuan, N. Szechuan, China".
Bulletin of the Geological Society of China, 22(3-4): 293-309.
• Zhiming Dong, Shiwu Zhou, Yihong Zhang (1983) "
Dinosaurs from the Jurassic of Sichuan".
Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, 162(23): 1-136 
• Holtz jr TR, Molnar RE, and Currie PJ (2004) "Basal Tetanurae". Page 71-110 in Weishampel, Dodson and Osmolska (eds.) "
The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
• Wu X-C, Currie PJ, Dong Z, Pan BS and Wang T 2009) "A new theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Lufeng, Yunnan, China".
Acta Geologica Sinica, 83(1): 9-24.
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