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"Crown dragon" Another tyrannosaur down!
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Guanlong is a proceratosaurid tyrannosaurid that existed in Xinjian, China within the Shishugou Formation! The specific species wucaii refers to "five colors/multicolored" due to the multi-hued rocks at Wucaiwan.
Due to this and guanlong meaning "Crown dragon" I based its colors loosely off the jewel-like eastern dragons based around the area.
Guanlong wucaii is one of the most primitive tyrannosaurs currently known and probably hunted prey 95 million years before t.rex even existed yet!
You can see them in my roster on my Customs page!
Not F2U or P2U, they're for my adopts or customs only.
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Category Artwork (Digital) / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Dinosaur
Size 1280 x 616px
File Size 135.1 kB
I wonder why this creature developed such a crest. Dilophosaurus, for example had crests, too. Yet as far as I know Dilophosaurus was not a relative of T-Rex.
Also it is iteresting to know how far T-Rex and it's relatives were spread. As far as I know T-Rex used to live in the region known as the united Stated today. Even though the tectonic plates were positioned differently back then, threre was still quite some distance between Asia and the USA as far as I know.
I'm not an expert though ^^
Anyways:
Thank you for this beautiful Picture and the background info.
Also it is iteresting to know how far T-Rex and it's relatives were spread. As far as I know T-Rex used to live in the region known as the united Stated today. Even though the tectonic plates were positioned differently back then, threre was still quite some distance between Asia and the USA as far as I know.
I'm not an expert though ^^
Anyways:
Thank you for this beautiful Picture and the background info.
It's very interesting!
Crests are just a single feature while classifications are much more complex anatomically throughout the animal for it to classify it under a certain family. Tyrannosaurids are coelurosaurian (A clade with theropods that's more closely related to birds) than other carnosaurs (Carcharodontosaurids, concavenator, etc).
I believe the dimensions and whatnot of the skull and pelvis matter most firstly (And realistically a list of others)- but some early tyrannosauroids sported 3 fingers (guanlong is a basal tyrannosauroid, existing 92 million years before tyrannosaurs existed) and would eventually sport two on their famously small forelimbs.
Crests are present on other dinosaurs as well, such as monolophosaurus, allosaurus, cryolophosaurus (Which IS a dilophosaurid), and then you got parasaurolophus and what not featuring their own fancified crests for different purposes.
And that's basically what I've learned so far in a sloppy nutshell.
Crests are just a single feature while classifications are much more complex anatomically throughout the animal for it to classify it under a certain family. Tyrannosaurids are coelurosaurian (A clade with theropods that's more closely related to birds) than other carnosaurs (Carcharodontosaurids, concavenator, etc).
I believe the dimensions and whatnot of the skull and pelvis matter most firstly (And realistically a list of others)- but some early tyrannosauroids sported 3 fingers (guanlong is a basal tyrannosauroid, existing 92 million years before tyrannosaurs existed) and would eventually sport two on their famously small forelimbs.
Crests are present on other dinosaurs as well, such as monolophosaurus, allosaurus, cryolophosaurus (Which IS a dilophosaurid), and then you got parasaurolophus and what not featuring their own fancified crests for different purposes.
And that's basically what I've learned so far in a sloppy nutshell.
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