Suzhousaurus is an extinct genus of large therizinosaurid dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of China. The genus is known from two specimens discovered in the Xiagou and Zhonggou Formations, both par
Suzhousaurus megatherioides
Confuciusornis plumage pattern
Therizinosaurs are an extinct group of large herbivorous theropod dinosaurs whose fossils have been mainly discovered from Cretaceous deposits in Asia and North America. Potential fragmentary remains
Suzhousaurus
…great trochanter and articular surfaces. It has a total length of 84 cm (840 mm). Li and coauthors, in their description, assigned Suzhousaurus to the Therizinosauroidea, in a basal position. They performed a cladistic analysis that found the genus to be more derived than Beipiaosaurus and Falcarius, less derived than…
Therizinosauria Diversity
Forelimbs of Therizinosaurus, specimen IGM 100/15 displayed at Nagoya City Science Museum
Outdated restoration of a plateosaurid-like, quadrupedal Erlikosaurus. Therizinosaurs were often depicted this way until they were definitively identified as theropods
Reconstructed skeleton of Alxasaurus from China, the completeness of which confirmed therizinosaurs as theropods in 1993