Therizinosauridae
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Therizinosauridae is an extinct family of therizinosauroid dinosaurs whose fossil remains have been found in mostly Late Cretaceous boundary. Even though representative fossils have only been found th
Therizinosauridae Diversity
Holotype claw cast of Therizinosaurus (PIN 551–483)
Frontal view of the arms in Therizinosaurus IGM 100/15
Skeletal composite of two specimens of Alxasaurus
Therizinosaurus
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Therizinosaurus is a genus of very large therizinosaurid dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Asia. It contains a single species, Therizinosaurus cheloniformis, known
Therizinosauridae
…nine definitive genera. Therizinosauridae was named in 1954 by paleontologist Evgeny Maleev after the large, claw-bearing unguals of the type species Therizinosaurus cheloniformis. Therizinosaurids were generally large and very robustly built animals that had a near convergent body plan with the more recent (and also extinct…
Therizinosaurus arms
Holotype unguals PIN 551–483 at the Moscow Paleontological Museum; note left ungual cast
Arms of specimen MPC-D 100/15 with unguals 100/16 and 100/17 at CosmoCaixa Barcelona
Composite skeletal of the known remains of Therizinosaurus