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Shaochilong (meaning "shark toothed dragon") is an extinct genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian to the Albian stage) Miaogou Formation of China, though a more restrictive suggestion from the Aptian to the Albian has been suggested based on faunal composition.
The oldest known attestation of the children of the dragon list is found in the Miscellaneous records from the bean garden (菽園雜記) by Lu Rong (1436–1494); however, he noted that the list enumerates mere synonyms of various antiques, not children of a dragon. [1] Several Ming Dynasty texts list what were claimed as the Nine Offspring of ...
Long Ya Men (simplified Chinese: 龙牙门; traditional Chinese: 龍牙門; pinyin: lóngyámén; Malay: Batu Berlayar) or Dragon's Teeth Gate, is the name Chinese explorer Wang Dayuan recorded for Batu Belayar, a craggy granite outcrop that formerly stood at the gateway to Keppel Harbour in Singapore.
Any fossils, including fossil shark teeth, are preserved in sedimentary rocks after falling from their mouth. [13] The sediment that the teeth were found in is used to help determine the age of the shark tooth due to the fossilization process. [15] Shark teeth are most commonly found between the Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. [16]
They usually have prominent teeth, which real-life turtles don't. [28] By the mid- Qing (the 18th century), however, the stele-bearing tortoise becomes the characteristic dragon -headed bixi . Xiao Xiu mausoleum, Nanjing , Liang dynasty , ca. 518.
Ming was a tiger that was found living in an apartment in Harlem, New York City, in October 2003, when he was approximately three years old.Ming lived semi-openly with his owner, Antoine Yates, in a room of Yates' five-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor of a large public housing complex in Harlem.
The really dark shark teeth, Dunn said, are millions of years old and more commonly found. The lighter teeth, beige or pearly in color, fell out more recently.
The genus name, Dracopristis, is derived from the Latin words draco, meaning ' dragon ', and pristis, meaning ' shark '. [5] The dorsal spines, facial denticles, and rows of teeth have been suggested to give the animal a "dragon-like" appearance, [2] [3] [5] and -pristis is a common suffix given to shark-like fishes.