Outline: a typical theropod
Paralitherizinosaurus
Type species Paralitherizinosaurus japonicus
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Theropods, Therizinosauridae
- Found in
- Japan
- Named by
- Kobayashi et al. 2022
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Paralitherizinosaurus
What it was like
Paralitherizinosaurus was a therizinosaur, a feathered plant eater with long claws on its hands. It is known from part of a hand and a neck bone.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Japan. Its bones come from the Osoushinai Formation, which formed in the sea, so its body probably drifted out from the coast.
How it was found
Kobayashi and colleagues named it in 2022. The type species is Paralitherizinosaurus japonicus. Its name refers to the coast.
Close relatives
Other members of Therizinosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: Y. Kobayashi, R. Takasaki, and A. R. Fiorillo, T. Chinzorig, Y. Hikida. 2022. New therizinosaurid dinosaur from the marine Osoushinai Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Japan) provides insight for function and evolution of therizinosaur claws. Scientific Reports 12:7207:1-12