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Siluosaurus
A “silk-road lizard” from Early Cretaceous China. Its name comes from Clhinese Silu, “silk road”, the ancient trade route through China and Central Asia that carried Chinese silk and other goods to the Middle East and Europe. A 1992 Sino-Japanese Silk Road Expedition found the fossil as they were following the old Silk Road to Central Asia. Named by Chinese paleontologist Zhiming Dong in 1997.
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