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Alectrosaurus
genus of reptiles (fossil) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alectrosaurus is a theropod dinosaur related to Tyrannosaurus, Alioramus and Tarbosaurus. It lived in Mongolia and China in the Late Cretaceous period, about 90-70 million years ago.[1] Alectrosaurus as a genus existed for about 9 million years.
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Superfamily: | †Tyrannosauroidea |
Genus: | †Alectrosaurus Gilmore, 1933 |
Species: | †A. olseni |
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Alectrosaurus olseni Gilmore, 1933 | |
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