Chilantaisaurus

Chilantai lizard

• Chilantai · Place name (Chinese/Mongolian region) · Chilantai, a locality in Inner Mongolia, China
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines "Chilantai", a locality in Inner Mongolia, China, near where the fossils were found, with the Greek word for lizard. It was chosen to mean "lizard from Chilantai", following the usual convention of naming dinosaurs after their discovery site. The type species is Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensis.

Named by

Hu

Year named

1964

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Turonian

Found in

Ulansuhai Formation, Inner Mongolia, China

A large theropod usually placed among the allosauroids (carcharodontosaurians). The age of the fossil beds is somewhat uncertain, and the stage given here is the one I'm less sure of.