Timurlengia is an extinct genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur that lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Uzbekistan, more specifically the Bissekty Formation. It was named after Timurleng, the founder of the Timurid Empire in Central Asia. The holotype specimen measure three to four meters long and weighed 170 to 270 kilograms. The history of Timurlengia dates back to the 20th century. Fossil materials of this dinosaur were first found in 1944 by Soviet or Russian researchers. By 2004, an international team discovered a braincase. The braincase was housed at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where a tyrannosaur expert named Steve Brusatte identified it as a new species in 2014. It receives its official name in 2016 by Stephen Brusatte as well as other paleontologists. Timurlengia has coexisted with other dinosaurs, including the ceratopsian Turanoceratops.
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