Guanlong Dinosaur Facts

Guanlong is a genus of dinosaur. Which means “crown dragon”.
Guanlong is a member of (“lizard-hipped”) order of dinosaurs Saurischian. Although it does not look like a lizard, but still have the same backbone.A theropod,a member of a group of related bipedal dinosaurs that included the ancestors of birds (but not Guanlong ancestors of birds).

This dinosaur lived about 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic period of stay in China.Surprisingly, when Guanlong found, in formation Shishugou China, paleontologists from the George Washington University discovered two dead specimens overlap each other, this is thought to occur around 12 years.Are carnivorous (meat-eating) which has a height of about 10 feet (3 meters). And weighs about 100 to 200 pounds (45-90 kilograms).Guanlong had an air-filled crest on its head. It is the earliest known tyrannosauroid (Tyrannosaurus-like) dinosaur.

Group of dinosaurs that includes animals such as Albertosaurus, Alioramus, Gorgosaurus, Tarbosaurus, and, of course, Tyrannosaurus rex.