Neimongosaurus yangi Neimongosaurus
"Nei Mongol lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Neimongosaurus 3 m (9.8 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 3 m (9.8 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
Neimongosaurus (meaning “Nei Mongol lizard”) is a genus of herbivorous therizinosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in China during the Late Cretaceous period. Its fossils are known from the strata of the Iren Dabasu Formation. It is known from two specimens, discovered in 1999 by researchers from the Ministry of Land and Resources and described two years later. One species, N. yangi, is known, named after Chinese palaeontologist Yang Zhongjian.
What we know
- Named by Zhang et al., 2001.
- Body length estimated at about 3 m.
- Fossils found in China.