Alxasaurus

DV-0366 · type species Alxasaurus elesitaiensis

Lived: 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Theropods
Found in: China
Named by: Russell and Dong 1994

Field notes

About Alxasaurus

Alxasaurus was a plant-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 113 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Alxasaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Bayangobi Formation. It was named by Russell and Dong in 1994.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

115 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Psittacosaurusceratopsian
Bannykustheropod
Penelopognathusornithopod

Close relatives

Other members of Therizinosauroidea.

BeipiaosaurusEarly Cretaceous
MartharaptorEarly Cretaceous

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: D. A. Russell and Z.-M. Dong. 1994. The affinities of a new theropod from the Alxa Desert, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30(10-11):2107-2127