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Therizinosauridae

Erliansaurus bellamanus

"Erlian lizard"

Generic theropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Erliansaurus 4 m (13.1 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic theropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Erliansaurus
Length
4 m (13.1 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (96 Mya)
Place
Asia
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Therizinosauridae Dinosauria Saurischia Theropoda Coelurosauria Pot-bellied theropods with giant claws — secondarily plant-eating.

Erliansaurus (meaning “Erlian lizard”) is a genus of therizinosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Nei Mongol, Iren Dabasu Formation.

What we know

  • Named by Xu et al., 2002.
  • Body length estimated at about 4 m.
  • Fossils found in Asia.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Erliansaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.