Zhuchengtyrannus (meaning "Zhucheng tyrant") is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period. It is a tyrannosaurine tyrannosaurid which lived during the late Cretaceous period in what is now Zhucheng, Shandong Province of China. It is known from a maxilla and associated dentary (lower jaw with teeth) recovered from the Wangshi Group, dating to about 70 million years ago. It was one of the largest known carnivorous theropods, measuring about 11 m (36 ft) in length, 4 metres (13 ft) tall, and 6 tons in weight. The dentary is only a little smaller than the largest Tyrannosaurus rex jawbone found.
The place where the dinosaur has been found was a flood plain in the Cretaceous period and contains one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur bones in the world.
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