Neimongosaurus

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Neimongosaurus
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Superfamily: Therizinosauroidea
Genus: Neimongosaurus
Zhang et al., 2001
Species
  • N. yangi Zhang et al., 2001 (type)

Neimongosaurus ("Nei Mongol lizard") is a theropod dinosaur genus known from the Upper Cretaceous Iren Dabasu Formation of China, approximately 92 million years ago. It is thought to have been about 2.3 meters in length. Neimongosaurus was a therizinosaur. The type species, Neimongosaurus yangi, was formally described by Zhang, Xu, Sereno, Kwang and Tan in 2001.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Zhang, Xu, Sereno, Kwang and Tan, (2001). "A long-necked therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Iren Dabasu Formation of Nei Mongol, People’s Republic of China." Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 39(4): 282-290.

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