{"product_id":"allosaurus-skull","title":"Dilong skull cast replica dinosaur Tyrannosaurid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDilong\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(帝龍, which means 'emperor dragon') is a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genus\" title=\"Genus\"\u003egenus\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof basal\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tyrannosauroidea\" title=\"Tyrannosauroidea\"\u003etyrannosauroid\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dinosaur\" title=\"Dinosaur\"\u003edinosaur\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe only species is\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDilong paradoxus\u003c\/i\u003e. It is from the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Early_Cretaceous\" title=\"Early Cretaceous\"\u003eLower\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cretaceous\" title=\"Cretaceous\"\u003eCretaceous\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yixian_Formation\" title=\"Yixian Formation\"\u003eYixian Formation\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003enear Lujiatun, Beipiao, in the western\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liaoning\" title=\"Liaoning\"\u003eLiaoning\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eprovince of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China\" title=\"China\"\u003eChina\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDilong dinosaur skull cast replica measures approximately  6 inches long x 3 inches high.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCustom painting available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe type specimen is IVPP 14243 (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Institute_of_Vertebrate_Paleontology_and_Paleoanthropology\" title=\"Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology\"\u003eInstitute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beijing\" title=\"Beijing\"\u003eBeijing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), a nearly complete, semi-articulated, skull and skeleton. Referred material includes IVPP 1242, a nearly complete skull and presacral vertebrae, TNP01109 (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tianjin_Natural_History_Museum\" title=\"Tianjin Natural History Museum\"\u003eTianjin Museum of Natural History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), a partial skull, and IVPP V11579, another skull which may belong to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eD. paradoxus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, or to a related species. The type specimen of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDilong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was about 1.6 m (5.2 ft) in length, but it is thought to be a juvenile and may have been over 2 m (6.6 ft) long when fully grown.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDilong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas first described, it was considered one of the earliest and most primitive members of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tyrannosauroidea\" title=\"Tyrannosauroidea\"\u003eTyrannosauroidea\u003c\/a\u003e, the group that includes the later, larger\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tyrannosauridae\" title=\"Tyrannosauridae\"\u003etyrannosaurids\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esuch as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tyrannosaurus\" title=\"Tyrannosaurus\"\u003eTyrannosaurus\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erex\u003c\/i\u003e. At least one later study, by Turner and colleagues in 2007, reanalyzed the relationships of coelurosaurian dinosaurs, including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDilong\u003c\/i\u003e, and found that it was not a tyrannosauroid. Rather, they placed\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDilong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etwo steps above the tyrannosauroids in their phylogeny; more advanced than\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coelurus\" title=\"Coelurus\"\u003eCoelurus\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, but more primitive than the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Compsognathidae\" title=\"Compsognathidae\"\u003eCompsognathidae\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.5px;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHowever, other studies continued to find\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDilong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas a tyrannosauroid, and some (such as Carr \u0026amp; Williamson 2010) found\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDilong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto fall within Tyrannosauroidea, not among the more advanced coelurosaurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBelow is a cladogram containing most tyrannosauroids by Loewen\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eet al.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003csup class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a 2014 study, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDilong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was found to be a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proceratosauridae\" title=\"Proceratosauridae\"\u003eproceratosaurid\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e However, in an analysis by Brusatte \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eet al.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in 2016, both \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maximum_parsimony_(phylogenetics)\" title=\"Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics)\"\u003eparsimony\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bayesian_inference\" title=\"Bayesian inference\"\u003eBayesian\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e phylogenetic analyses placed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDilong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e outside of Proceratosauridae, as a slightly more advanced tyrannosauroid.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e .....\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDilong skull, \u003cmark class=\"QVRyCf\"\u003ea small, feathered tyrannosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous period\u003c\/mark\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDilong was one of the earliest known tyrannosauroids, and it possessed features like a Y-shaped crest on its snout and three fingers on each hand, unlike its later relatives, such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe original fossil, which was found in China. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDilong is significant in the study of tyrannosaur evolution because it provides insight into how these dinosaurs developed before evolving into the larger, more well-known forms.\u003cspan jscontroller=\"JHnpme\" class=\"pjBG2e\" data-cid=\"6b268cb2-ba3b-451f-a54f-4c593d3edefd\" jsaction=\"rcuQ6b:npT2md\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"UV3uM\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan jscontroller=\"JHnpme\" class=\"pjBG2e\" data-cid=\"6b268cb2-ba3b-451f-a54f-4c593d3edefd\" jsaction=\"rcuQ6b:npT2md\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"UV3uM\"\u003eReconstructed cast. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BigfootCasts.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40313375719615,"sku":"","price":181.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0041\/6635\/2996\/products\/Screenshot_20210731-002243.png?v=1627717353","url":"https:\/\/bigfootcasts.com\/en-ca\/products\/allosaurus-skull","provider":"BigfootCasts.com ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}