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Suzhousaurus is a genus of therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Xinminpu Group of the Yujingzi Basin, Gansu, China. It is known from a partial postcranial skeleton, 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.[1]
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- ^ Li D.; Peng C.; You H.; Lamanna, M.C.; Harris, J.D.; Lacovara, K.J.; and Zhang J. (2007). "A large therizinosauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern China". Acta Geologica Sinica (English edition) 81 (4): 539–549.
