Yutyrannus

Yutyrannus huali

Yutyrannus means beautiful feathered tyrant. It is the largest known feathered dinosaur, providing evidence that even large tyrannosaurs could have been feathered. Its discovery challenged assumptions about feather distribution in large theropods.

Physical Description

Measurement	Value	Human Scale
Panjang	9.0 m	roughly the length of a large SUV
Height	3.0 m	—
Berat	1.4 t	comparable to 1.4 small cars

Diet & Feeding

Carnivore

Yutyrannus was a meat-eating predator. Carnivorous dinosaurs were active hunters or scavengers, equipped with sharp teeth and claws for catching and consuming prey. They occupied the top of the food chain in their ecosystems.

Time Period

Cretaceous Early Mesozoic Era

Yutyrannus lived during the Cretaceous Early period of the Mesozoic Era, approximately 145,0 to 100,5 million years ago.

The Cretaceous saw continued dinosaur evolution with the rise of ornithopods and early ceratopsians. Flowering plants first appeared and began to transform terrestrial ecosystems. Spinosaurus and other large theropods lived during this time.

Discovery & Naming

Dinamai Oleh	Xu Xing et al.
Tahun Penemuan	2012
Lokasi Penemuan	Liaoning Province, China

Klasifikasi

Dinosauria → Saurischia → Theropoda → Tyrannosauridae → Yutyrannus

Tyrant lizards

Large bipedal predators of the Late Cretaceous with massive skulls, powerful jaws, and tiny two-fingered forelimbs. Tyrannosaurus rex is the most famous member.