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# Cryolophosaurus

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? Cryolophosaurus Fossil range: Early Jurassic
Scientific classification

Kingdom: | Animalia
Phylum: | Chordata
Class: | Sauropsida
Superorder: | Dinosauria
Order: | Saurischia
Suborder: | Theropoda
(unranked) | ?Tetanurae
Genus: | Cryolophosaurus

Binomial name
Cryolophosaurus ellioti Hammer & Hickerson, 1994

The name Cryolophosaurus means "frozen crested reptile." The characteristic feature of this dinosaur is the large crest on the top of the skull, above the eyes. The nasal bones extend toward the back of the skull as ridges, and then join with the lacrimal bones to form a grooved crest which extends perpendicularly from the skull. Cryolophosaurus was discovered in the Jurassic Hanson Formation in the Transantarctic Mountains and represents the only theropod dinosaur to be found in Antarctica.

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