Outline: a typical ornithopod
Tanius
"of Tan"
- Lived
- 90 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Wiman 1929
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Tanius
What it was like
Tanius was a large plant eater, an early relative of the duck-billed dinosaurs, with a beak and rows of grinding teeth. It is known from part of the skull and skeleton.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now eastern China. Its bones come from the Jingangkou Formation, where it shared the land with the crested hadrosaur Tsintaosaurus and the small Micropachycephalosaurus.
How it was found
Wiman named Tanius in 1929, after a Chinese geologist. Five finds are known.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: C. Wiman. 1929. Die Kreide-Dinosaurier aus Shantung [The Cretaceous dinosaurs of Shantung]. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C 6(1):1-67