Outline: a typical theropod
Neimongosaurus
"Inner Mongolia lizard"
Type species Neimongosaurus yangi
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Theropods, Therizinosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Zhang et al. 2001
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Neimongosaurus
What it was like
Neimongosaurus was a therizinosaur, a pot-bellied plant eater with a long neck, small head and long claws on its hands.
Its neck was long compared to its body, and it probably fed on leaves high off the ground.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now northern China. Its bones come from the Iren Dabasu Formation, where it shared the land with the giant oviraptor Gigantoraptor, another therizinosaur called Erliansaurus, and the plant eaters Bactrosaurus and Gilmoreosaurus.
How it was found
Zhang and colleagues named Neimongosaurus in 2001.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Therizinosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: X.-H. Zhang, X. Xu, and X.-J. Zhao, P. C. Sereno, X.-W. Kuang, L. 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