Lung Tumor Lung Tumor
Latin scientific name Tylosaurus
Length 10 m
Weight of 8 tons
Meat diet
The survival of the Late Cretaceous age (7 thousand millions of 5 millions of years ago -6)
Distribution in North America
Category Reptilia Squamata Cang Long Branch
It is a first in North America found that the giant-Cang-Long, which was covered with knots, length 13 meters, there is just 1.8 meters long head. This monster rampage in the sea, predators can eat all things, invincible. Lung tumor paleontologists analysis of the fossil remnants of the stomach, it was found that a variety of small animals, including small-Cang Long and plesiosaur. Although the survival of tumor-long era of relatively short, in the late Cretaceous (85 million years ago ~ 7300 million years ago) shortly after emergence and extinction, but the dragon is a tumor that time the most important and most widely distributed carnivores, and their fossil found throughout the world. Lung tumor location before the teeth have a big bag of circular process, its name is intended to "round nose", some scientists believe that the capsule is used to temporarily store food, or frigate bird is the same as the gas used to drum to show off the heart to fight for the opposite sex. Lung tumors have a huge long heads and lightweight structure, the teeth bent backward at pit, the lower jaw in the middle part of the community of its hinge. Neck very short, only seven vertebrae, which other parts of the body very long. There is a single spine concave and convex hinge Wo Hop, which are not allowed to move forward. In the Chinese translation, often a mistake is to confuse Haiwang Lung and Lung tumor, in fact, they are of Latin Tylosaurus, of course, the same species, the Sea King is Latin Neptunus, which is the Tylo warts, meaning tumor.