Tanius Tanius
"of Tan"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tanius 7 m (23 ft) long
4 people holding hands
- Length
- 7 m (23 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–71 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.