Outline: a typical theropod
Suzhousaurus
Type species Suzhousaurus megatherioides
- Lived
- 121 to 110 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Theropods, Therizinosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Li et al. 2007
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
115 million years ago
Field notes
About Suzhousaurus
What it was like
Suzhousaurus was a large therizinosaur, a plant-eating theropod with a pot belly, a long neck and big hand claws. Its species name compares it to giant ground sloths, which had a similar build.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now China. It shared its world with the parrot-beaked Psittacosaurus, the horned Archaeoceratops, the early tyrannosaur Xiongguanlong and the sauropod Qiaowanlong.
How it was found
Li and colleagues named Suzhousaurus in 2007. The type species is Suzhousaurus megatherioides.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Therizinosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: D. Li, C. Peng, and H. You, M. C. Lamanna, J. D. Harris, K. J. Lacovara, J. Zhang. 2007. A large therizinosauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern China. Acta Geologica Sinica 81(4):539-549