Genus
Valid Extinct

Neimongosaurus

Zhang et al. 2001

Neimongosaurus is a genus of herbivorous therizinosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in China during the Late Cretaceous period. Its fossils are known from the strata of the Iren Dabasu Formation. It is known from two specimens, discovered in 1999 by researchers from the Ministry of Land and Resources and described two years later. One species, N. yangi, is known, named after Chinese palaeontologist Yang Zhongjian.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Neimongosaurus
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Skeletal reconstruction of Neimongosaurus yangi. © Jaime A. Headden (User:Qilong) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Coelurosauria Unranked clade
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Maniraptoriformes Unranked clade
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Therizinosauria Unranked clade
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Therizinosauroidea Superfamily
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Therizinosauridae Family
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Neimongosaurus Genus
Measurements
Length
2,5 m ⓘ
Neimongosaurus yangi
Mass
115 kg ⓘ
Neimongosaurus yangi
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
1
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Bostobe
1
Iren Dabasu
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
2
Species (1)
Neimongosaurus yangi 84 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
X.-H. Zhang, X. Xu, and X.-J. Zhao, P. C. Sereno, X.-W. Kuang, L. Tan. 2001. A long-necked therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Iren Dabasu Formation of Nei Mongol, People's Republic of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 39(4):282-290
Bibliography (2)
A. O. Averianov. 2007. Theropod dinosaurs from Late Cretaceous deposits in the northeastern Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan. Cretaceous Research 28:532-544 DOI ↗
X.-H. Zhang, X. Xu, and X.-J. Zhao, P. C. Sereno, X.-W. Kuang, L. Tan. 2001. A long-necked therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Iren Dabasu Formation of Nei Mongol, People's Republic of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 39(4):282-290