Suzhousaurus

Taxobox
name = "Suzhousaurus"
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia


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phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Theropoda
superfamilia = Therizinosauroidea
genus = "Suzhousaurus"
genus_authority = Li "et al.", 2007
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"S. megatherioides" Li "et al.", 2007 (type)

"Suzhousaurus" is a genus of therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Xinminpu Group of the Yujingzi Basin, Gansu, China. It is known from two partial postcranial skeletons, [Li, D., You, H., and Zhang, J. (2008). "A new specimen of "Suzhousaurus megatherioides" (Dinosauria: Therizinosauroidea) from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern China." "Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences", 45(7): 769–779.] including a distinctive upper arm that establishes it as a therizinosauroid. Li and coauthors, who described the genus, performed a cladistic analysis that found the genus to be more derived than "Beipiaosaurus" and "Falcarius", less derived than "Alxasaurus" and true therizinosaurids, and the sister taxon of "Nothronychus", forming a clade with it. Along with "Nanshiungosaurus" "bohlini", which may be about the same age, "Suzhousaurus" was one of the largest known Early Cretaceous therizinosauroids.cite journal |author=Li D. |coauthors=Peng C.; You H.; Lamanna, M.C.; Harris, J.D.; Lacovara, K.J.; and Zhang J. |year=2007 |title=A large therizinosauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern China |journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English edition) |volume=81 |issue=4 |pages=539–549 ]

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