Enigmosaurus

Enigmosaurus
	Enigmosaurus
Temporal occurrence
	Upper Cretaceous (late Turonium to Campanium )
	91.4 to 72 million years
Locations
	Mongolia;
Systematics
	Dinosaur (dinosauria)
	Lizard dinosaur (Saurischia)
	Theropoda
	Coelurosauria
	Therizinosauroidea
	Enigmosaurus
Scientific name
	Enigmosaurus
	Barsbold & Perle, 1983
Art
	Enigmosaurus mongoliensis;

Enigmosaurus ( gr . "Mysterious lizard") was a present from the Asia -derived theropod dinosaurs . Regarding the system , Enigmosaurus is assigned to the Therizinosauroidea . The only known species is Enigmosaurus mongoliensis .

Fossils of the lizard dinosaur , which lived about 91 to 72 million years ago , were found and described in Mongolia by the paleontologists Barsbold and Perle in 1983. Enigmosaurus should have reached a length of about seven meters . The weight is estimated at around 900 kilograms . Its appearance came close to that of its close relative Erlikosaurus . He had huge claws on his fingers, as was typical for therizinosaurids.

Presumably, the dinosaur ate plants and moved biped (two-legged).

Systematics

Barsbold originally assigned Enigmosaurus to its own family , the Enigmosauridae. In 1992, Currie assumed that Enigmosaurus must have been a Segnosauridae . Two years later, Russell and Dong assigned Enigmosaurus to the Therizinosauridae . According to Clark et al. Enigmosaurus is assigned to the Therizinosauroidea (2004).

Individual evidence

↑ DinoData.org - Enigmosaurus mongoliensis , accessed on November 4, 2010
^ ^A ^b James M. Clark , Teresa Maryanska , Rinchen Barsbold : Therizinosauroidea. In: David B. Weishampel , Peter Dodson , Halszka Osmólska (eds.): The Dinosauria. 2nd edition. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 2004, ISBN 0-520-24209-2 , pp. 151-164, doi : 10.1525 / california / 9780520242098.003.0009 .
↑ DinoDictionary.com - Dinosaurs from AZ called November 4, 2010
↑ Ринченгийн Барсболд : Хищные динозавры мела Монголии. Совместная Советско-Монгольская палеонтологическая экспедиция (= Труды. 19). Наука, Москва 1983, pp. 1–11 (In English: Rinchen Barsbold: Carnivorous dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition (= Transaction of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition. Vol. 19). Self-published, Berkeley CA 1983, 1-11, online ).
^ Philip J. Currie : Saurischian dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous of Asia and North America. In: Niall J. Mateer, Chen Pei-ji: Aspects of Nonmarine Cretaceous Geology. China Ocean Press, Beijing 1992, ISBN 7-5027-1463-4 , pp. 237-249.
^ Dale A. Russell , Zhi-Ming Dong : The affinities of a new theropod from the Alxa Desert, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. In: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. Vol. 30, No. 10/11, 1993, ISSN 0008-4077 , pp. 2107-2127, doi : 10.1139 / e93-183 .

[1] DinoData.org - Enigmosaurus mongoliensis , accessed on November 4, 2010

[Clark-2] A ^b James M. Clark , Teresa Maryanska , Rinchen Barsbold : Therizinosauroidea. In: David B. Weishampel , Peter Dodson , Halszka Osmólska (eds.): The Dinosauria. 2nd edition. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 2004, ISBN 0-520-24209-2 , pp. 151-164, doi : 10.1525 / california / 9780520242098.003.0009 .

[3] DinoDictionary.com - Dinosaurs from AZ called November 4, 2010

[4] Ринченгийн Барсболд : Хищные динозавры мела Монголии. Совместная Советско-Монгольская палеонтологическая экспедиция (= Труды. 19). Наука, Москва 1983, pp. 1–11 (In English: Rinchen Barsbold: Carnivorous dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition (= Transaction of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition. Vol. 19). Self-published, Berkeley CA 1983, 1-11, online ).

[5] Philip J. Currie : Saurischian dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous of Asia and North America. In: Niall J. Mateer, Chen Pei-ji: Aspects of Nonmarine Cretaceous Geology. China Ocean Press, Beijing 1992, ISBN 7-5027-1463-4 , pp. 237-249.

[6] Dale A. Russell , Zhi-Ming Dong : The affinities of a new theropod from the Alxa Desert, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. In: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. Vol. 30, No. 10/11, 1993, ISSN 0008-4077 , pp. 2107-2127, doi : 10.1139 / e93-183 .