Neimongosaurus
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Neimongosaurus
DV-0488 · type species Neimongosaurus yangi
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Theropods, Therizinosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Zhang et al. 2001
Field notes
About Neimongosaurus
Neimongosaurus 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 Neimongosaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Iren Dabasu Formation. It was named by Zhang et al. in 2001.
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.-H. Zhang, X. Xu, and X.-J. Zhao, P. C. Sereno, X.-W. Kuang, L. Tan. 2001. A long-necked therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Iren Dabasu Formation of Nei Mongol, People's Republic of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 39(4):282-290