Dilong
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| phylum | Chordata | Dilong (which means 'emperor dragon') is a genus of small tyrannosauroid dinosaur. The only species is Dilong paradoxus. It is from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation near Lujiatun, Beipiao, in the western Liaoning province of China. It lived about 125 million years ago. It was described by Xu Xing and colleagues in 2004.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| infraclass | Dinosauria | |
| order | Saurischia | |
| Suborder | Theropoda | |
| superfamily | Tyrannosauroidea | |
| genus | Dilong | |
| Period | Early Cretaceous |
