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Chuandongocoelurus (CHWAHN-DUNG-o-see-LOOR-us - Chuandong and Greek Coelurus - koilos meaning "hollow" and oura meaning "tail") named after the Chuandong in Sichuan Province, China, where the fragmentary remains of a possible coelurosaur were found by He in 1984. The formation in which it was discovered was the Lower Shaximiao Formation, part of the Dashanpu Formation. It is considered a nomen dubium.
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- He, (1984). The vertebrate fossils of Sichuan: Sichuan Scientific and Technological Publishing House, 168 pgs.
- Norman, David B. (1990). Problematic Theropoda: ``Coelurosaurs. p. 280-305 in David B. Weishampel, et al. (eds.), The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford.
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