University of the Witwatersrand Evolutionary Studies Institute Senior Researcher Dr. Jonah Choiniere and a team of international researchers have named a new species of therapod, or meat eating dinosaur.
The species has been named Auron Zhaoi. Auron was the dragon king in Journey to the West while Zhaoi comes from Zhao Xijin, a Chinese paleontologist.
The fossil measures just over one metre long and the dinosaur weighed about 1.5 kilogrammes, however it was likely still a youngster when it died more that 161 million years ago in the late Jurassic period.
“We were able to look at microscopic details of Aorun's bones and they showed that the animal was less than a year old when it died on the banks of a stream,” says Choiniere.
Its small teeth suggest it ate lizards, small mammals and crocodiles.
The find appears in the May 3 issue of the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, and you can get more information on the find at the university's website.
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