Neimongosaurus yangi
"Nei Mongol lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Neimongosaurus 3 m (9.8 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 3 m (9.8 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Therizinosauridae Dinosauria Saurischia Theropoda Coelurosauria Pot-bellied theropods with giant claws — secondarily plant-eating.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Neimongosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.