Outline: a typical theropod
Enigmosaurus
"riddle lizard"
Type species Enigmosaurus mongoliensis
- Lived
- 101 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Theropods, Therizinosauridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Barsbold and Perle 1983
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
90 million years ago
Field notes
About Enigmosaurus
What it was like
Enigmosaurus was a therizinosaur, a plant-eating theropod with a pot belly and long hand claws. It is known only from its hips, which are broad and unusual.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Mongolia. It comes from the Baynshire Formation, where it shared the land with its relatives Segnosaurus and Erlikosaurus, the dromaeosaur Achillobator and the armored Talarurus.
How it was found
Barsbold and Perle named Enigmosaurus in 1983. The type species is Enigmosaurus mongoliensis. Some scientists think it may be the same animal as Erlikosaurus, which is known from a skull but no hips.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Therizinosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. Barsbold. 1983. Khishchnye dinosavry mela Mongoliy [Carnivorous dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition 19:1-117