Ulughbegsaurus
Name:
Ulughbegsaurus
(Ulugh Beg's lizard).
Phonetic: U-lugh-beg-sor-us.
Named By: Kohei Tanaka, Otabek Ulugbek Ogli
Anvarov, Darla K. Zelenitsky, Akhmadjon Shayakubovich
Ahmedshaev, & Yoshitsugu Kobayashi - 2021.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Carcharodontosauria.
Species: U. uzbekistanensis
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of fossil remains.
Comparison of holotype fossil to other carcharodontosaurid genera
suggests a skull size of about 90 centimetres. Body length of
holotype individual about 7.5 to 8 meters.
Known locations: Uzbekistan - Bissekty Formation.
Time period: Turonian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Holotype a partial left
maxilla. Further skull bones and teeth referred to the genus.
Ulughbegsaurus
is a genus of carcharodontosaurid
theropod dinosaur that lived in
Central Asia during the early stages of the Late Cretaceous,
specifically the Turonian period. The carcharodontosaurid theropod
dinosaurs were apex predators that rose to prominence during the early
Cretaceous, however there is plenty of fossil evidence to show that
as a group they continued to be key predators well into the early
stages of the late cretaceous, especially in South America, but
also now it seems central Asia as well.
Ulughbegsaurus
was named from a partial maxilla, the tooth bearing bone of the upper
jaw. Like other carcharodontosaurid dinosaurs, Ulughbegsaurus
would
have had blade like teeth specifically adapted for slicing flesh as
opposed to crunching through bone. There are several other kinds of
dinosaurs known from the same fossil formation as Ulughbegsaurus,
though sauropod and large ornithopod/hadrosauroid dinosaurs may have
been the easiest prey.
Ulughbegsaurus
is named after Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh who is more
popularly known around the world as Ulugh Beg, who was once a Sultan
of the Timurid Empire, noted for his work in mathematics and
astronomy. The type species name of Ulughbegsaurus,
‘uzbekistanensis’, simply means ‘from Uzbekistan’.
Further reading
- A new carcharodontosaurian theropod dinosaur occupies apex predator
niche in the early Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. - Royal Society
Open Science. 8 (9): Article ID 210923 - Kohei Tanaka,
Otabek Ulugbek Ogli Anvarov, Darla K. Zelenitsky, Akhmadjon
Shayakubovich Ahmedshaev, & Yoshitsugu Kobayashi - 2021.
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