Tanius
"of Tan"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tanius 7 m (23 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 7 m (23 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–71 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Tanius (meaning “of Tan”) is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur. It lived in the Late Cretaceous of China. The type species, named and described in 1929 by Carl Wiman, is Tanius sinensis. The generic name honours the Chinese paleontologist Tan Xichou (“H.C. Tan”). The specific epithet refers to China. In 2010 Gregory S. Paul estimated the length of Tanius at 7 m and its weight at 2 MT.
What we know
- Named by Wiman, 1929.
- Body length estimated at about 7 m.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Tanius — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.