Erliansaurus
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Erliansaurus
DV-0500 · type species Erliansaurus bellamanus
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Theropods, Therizinosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Xu et al. 2002
Field notes
About Erliansaurus
Erliansaurus was a plant-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Therizinosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Erliansaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Iren Dabasu Formation. It was named by Xu et al. in 2002.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Therizinosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: X. Xu, Z.-H. Zhang, and P. C. Sereno, X.-J. Zhao, X.-W. Kuang, J. Han, L. Tan. 2002. A new therizinosauroid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Iren Dabasu Formation of Nei Mongol. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 40(3):228-240