New therizinosaurid dinosaur from the marine Osoushinai Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Japan) provides insight for function and evolution of therizinosaur claws

Citation

Kobayashi, Y.; Takasaki, R.; Fiorillo, A. R.; Chinzorig, T.; Hikida, Y. (2022). New therizinosaurid dinosaur from the marine Osoushinai Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Japan) provides insight for function and evolution of therizinosaur claws. Scientific Reports 12(1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-11063-5

Names first published here

• Paralitherizinosaurus genus
• Paralitherizinosaurus japonicus species

Cited by genera

• Enigmosaurus

  Recovered Enigmosaurus as the sister of the derived therizinosaurids, inside a stem-defined Therizinosauridae.

• Erliansaurus

  Under broader definition, recovered Erliansaurus with Neimongosaurus as the family's most basal clade.

• Lingyuanosaurus

  Recovered Lingyuanosaurus more derived than Beipiaosaurus, as in Yao and colleagues (2019).

• Neimongosaurus

  New therizinosaurid description recovered Neimongosaurus with Erliansaurus as basal clade under broader definition.

• Paralitherizinosaurus
• Suzhousaurus

  Recovered Suzhousaurus in a polytomy with Therizinosaurus and other derived therizinosaurs.

Cited by clades

• Therizinosauridae

  Proposed a stem-based definition, the most inclusive clade containing Therizinosaurus but not Alxasaurus.