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| - Most dinosaurs' names come from Latin or Greek words. Sometimes, they are named for the person who discovered them, or the place they were discovered, like Minmi. A few dinosaurs are simply named after English words, like Irritator, and the early Jurassic carnivore, Gasosaurus, literally meaning "gas lizard." The small dinosaur's name does not imply that it ate a lot of beans, but that it was discovered in China during the construction of a gas factory. This dinosaur is an early "tetanuran" which is the group containing advanced theropods, making it an early relative, and possibly even ancestor of such monsters as Allosaurus, and T-rex.
- The first and to date only fossils, albeit postcranial (missing the skull), were recovered in 1985 during the construction of a gas facility, which explains the dinosaur's unusual name. The fossils were defined as the type species Gasosaurus constructus by the paleontologists Dong Zhiming and Tang Zilu. There have still been very few fossils retrieved, so exact details are unknown. Specifically, no skull has been found. Some paleontologists have speculated that Gasosaurus and Kaijiangosaurus may be one and the same species. Traditionally thought to be a megalosauroid,[2] Holtz (2000) found it to be a basal coelurosaurian,[3] although later Holtz et al. (2004) suggested it was a basal carnosaur (possibly a sinraptorid) on the basis of data from undescribed specimens.[4] It may in fact be th
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| - The first and to date only fossils, albeit postcranial (missing the skull), were recovered in 1985 during the construction of a gas facility, which explains the dinosaur's unusual name. The fossils were defined as the type species Gasosaurus constructus by the paleontologists Dong Zhiming and Tang Zilu. There have still been very few fossils retrieved, so exact details are unknown. Specifically, no skull has been found. Some paleontologists have speculated that Gasosaurus and Kaijiangosaurus may be one and the same species. Traditionally thought to be a megalosauroid,[2] Holtz (2000) found it to be a basal coelurosaurian,[3] although later Holtz et al. (2004) suggested it was a basal carnosaur (possibly a sinraptorid) on the basis of data from undescribed specimens.[4] It may in fact be the most basal coelurosaurian yet known, or may even be close to the common ancestor of the two groups; in any case, it represents one of the oldest definitive tetanuran theropods.
- Most dinosaurs' names come from Latin or Greek words. Sometimes, they are named for the person who discovered them, or the place they were discovered, like Minmi. A few dinosaurs are simply named after English words, like Irritator, and the early Jurassic carnivore, Gasosaurus, literally meaning "gas lizard." The small dinosaur's name does not imply that it ate a lot of beans, but that it was discovered in China during the construction of a gas factory. This dinosaur is an early "tetanuran" which is the group containing advanced theropods, making it an early relative, and possibly even ancestor of such monsters as Allosaurus, and T-rex.
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