Outline: a typical ankylosaur
Talarurus
TAL-ah-ROOR-us
"wicker tail"
Type species Talarurus plicatospineus
- Lived
- 101 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 6 m (20 ft)
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Ankylosauridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Maleev 1952
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical ankylosaur shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
90 million years ago
Field notes
About Talarurus
What it was like
Talarurus was a club-tailed ankylosaur about 6 meters (20 feet) long. Its back was covered in rows of bony plates and spikes, and its tail ended in a heavy club.
The tendons in its tail were turned to bone and woven together, which kept the tail stiff and gave it its name.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia. Its bones come from the Baynshire Formation, where it shared the land with the therizinosaurs Segnosaurus and Erlikosaurus, the raptor Achillobator and the plant eater Bactrosaurus.
How it was found
Maleev named Talarurus in 1952. With three finds, it is one of the better known ankylosaurs from Asia.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ankylosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: E. A. Maleev. 1952. Noviy ankilosavr is verchnego mela Mongolii [A new ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 87(2):273-276