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Yutyrannus Fossil & 3D Skeleton

Yutyrannus huali

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Age

Cretaceous, about 125.77–119.57 million years ago

Found in

China

Length

8.0 m

Height

2.5 m

Group

Carnivorous relative (theropod; close relative of Tyrannosaurus)

How this 3D skeleton was made

This 3D model is a reconstruction. Most bone shapes (232 of 256) are borrowed from close relatives and fitted to this species' size and body proportions. The bone shapes are not the actual shapes of this species' fossils. 24 are estimated.

From this species 0Borrowed from relatives 232Estimated 24

Bones known from fossils

There is no record yet of which bones are known from fossils.

Tap a bone on the 3D page to see where each bone shape came from.

Sources

• 3D skeleton: A reconstruction created on this site from freely usable materials (research papers, out-of-copyright books, Wikimedia photos) (2026-10-05). Of the 256 bones (excluding teeth), 0 bones were modeled from photographs, drawings, and dimensions of actual fossils of this species; 232 bones borrowed shapes from close relatives and were scaled to fit; and 24 bones were estimated. Materials used: Boisvert, Perkins, Morrison, Gascoigne 2026 PeerJ doi:10.7717/peerj.21007 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) / Wikimedia Commons (authors listed in figures.json) (CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 2.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0). For other papers not freely usable, only factual data such as reported dimensions were referenced.
• Bones found: 0 bones are reported in the literature as fossil finds or visible in photographs (the rest have not been found, or are unknown from the literature)

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