Guanlong - Meaning:crowned dragon

Guanlong (gwan-long) which also means "five-coloured crown dragon", was a species of tyrannosauroid, one of the earliest known examples of the line. About 3 metres (10 ft) long and 1.1 metres (4 ft) high at the hip, it lived 160 million years ago in the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic period, 92 million years before its well-known relative Tyrannosaurus.

Guanlong was a carnivorous dinosaur.

This bipedal saurischian theropod shared many traits with its descendants, and also had some unusual ones, like a large crest on its head. Unlike later tyrannosaurs, Guanlong had long, three-fingered arms.

Aside from its distinctive crest, it would have resembled its close relative Dilong, and like Dilong may have had a coat of primitive feathers. Guanlong would have lived along side a distantly related dinosaur with a similar crest, Monolophosaurus.