Alectrosaurus (s; meaning `alone lizard`) is an extinct genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 83 to 74 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now Inner Mongolia. It was a medium sized, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, with a body shape similar to its much larg.....
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(pronounced ah-LECK-troh-SAWR-us) Alectrosaurus [meaning 'Alectra's lizard,' Alectra was one of the furies in classical mythology] was a huge, bipedal, meat-eating dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period, about 98 million to 88 million years ago. It was a tyrannosaurid, a theropod related to T. rex, but it had larger arms and claws and very long j...
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Alectrosaurus An “unmarried (mateless) lizard” from Late Cretaceous Mongolia and Kazakhstan. The unusual name Alectrosaurus is not derived from Greek alektor, “rooster” and does not mean “rooster lizard” or “eagle lizard” as stated in some sources. Named by U. S. paleontologist Charles Whitney Gilmore in 1933...
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