Tanius

Name: Tanius

Pronounced: Tan-e-us

Meaning: After the palaeontologist Tan Xichou

Type: Euornithopod

Length: 7 meters long

Diet: Herbivore

Period: Late Cretaceous

Years: 89-65 million years ago

Location: China

Description: Tanius is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Late Cretaceous period, about 85-70 million years ago. It is known from a partial skull and skeleton found in the Junggar Basin in Xinjiang. Tanius was a medium-sized tyrannosauroid, with an estimated length of about 5 meters (16 feet). It had a distinctive snout, with a broad, flat, and elongated skull, and a row of large, sharp teeth. Tanius is thought to have been a carnivore, likely preying on smaller dinosaurs and other animals. It is known from a single species, Tanius sinensis.

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