Tanius
Field photograph to come
Tanius
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- Lived
- 90 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Wiman 1929
Field notes
About Tanius
Tanius was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 90 to 72 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 5 finds of Tanius, from China. Its fossils come from rocks including the Jingangkou Formation and the Jiangjunding Formation. It was named by Wiman in 1929.
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 Hadrosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: C. Wiman. 1929. Die Kreide-Dinosaurier aus Shantung [The Cretaceous dinosaurs of Shantung]. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C 6(1):1-67