- 1999,
paleontologist Xing Xu and
colleagues described a small,
basal therizinosauroid from China, Beipiaosaurus,
which confirmed that the
group belonged...
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Suzhousaurus (meaning "Suzhou lizard") is a
genus of
large therizinosauroid dinosaur from the
Early Cretaceous of China. The
genus is
known from two specimens...
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Alxasaurus (/ˌɑːlʃəˈsɔːrəs/;
meaning "Alxa lizard") is a
genus of
therizinosauroid theropod dinosaurs from the
Early Cretaceous (Albian age) Bayin-Gobi...
- Therizinosauridae. Its
description in 2005,
following that of the
basal therizinosauroid Beipiaosaurus from the
Early Cretaceous of
China in 1999,
helped clarify...
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suggested it was the most
basal known therizinosauroid. Due to the
unusually long
chronological gap in the
therizinosauroid and
coelurosaurian fossil record...
- crest. An elongated, backwards-pointing
pubic bone is
present in
therizinosauroids, dromaeosaurids, avialans, and the
basal troodontid Sinovenator, which...
- 400 kg (201 to 882 lb).
Erliansaurus was a
bipedal herbivore. For a
therizinosauroid, its
cervicals were
rather short. The
preserved femur was very straight...
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pubis backward to
varying degrees in
several groups (Herrerasaurus,
therizinosauroids, dromaeosaurids, and birds).
Saurischia includes the
theropods (exclusively...
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Beipiaosaurus /ˌbeɪpjaʊˈsɔːrəs/ is a
genus of
therizinosauroid theropod dinosaurs that
lived in
China during the
Early Cretaceous in the
Yixian Formation...
- (meaning 'scythe lizards') is an
extinct family of
derived (advanced)
therizinosauroid dinosaurs whose fossil remains have been
found in
mostly Late Cretaceous...
