Genus
Valid Extinct

Erliansaurus

Xu et al. 2002

Erliansaurus is a genus of therizinosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Nei Mongol, Iren Dabasu Formation.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Erliansaurus
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Coelurosauria Unranked clade
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Maniraptoriformes Unranked clade
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Therizinosauria Unranked clade
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Therizinosauroidea Superfamily
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Therizinosauridae Family
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Erliansaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Iren Dabasu
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Erliansaurus bellamanus 84 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
X. Xu, Z.-H. Zhang, and P. C. Sereno, X.-J. Zhao, X.-W. Kuang, J. Han, L. Tan. 2002. A new therizinosauroid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Iren Dabasu Formation of Nei Mongol. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 40(3):228-240
Bibliography (1)
X. Xu, Z.-H. Zhang, and P. C. Sereno, X.-J. Zhao, X.-W. Kuang, J. Han, L. Tan. 2002. A new therizinosauroid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Iren Dabasu Formation of Nei Mongol. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 40(3):228-240