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Erketu
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Erketu is known from articulated cervical vertebrae (backbone), a sternal plate (breastbone) and an articulated lower leg.
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Fact file
- Pronounced
- er-kee-tu
- Meaning of name
- Erketu = Tengri (a Mongolian creator-god)
- Length
- estimated 15m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Early Cretaceous
- Found in
- Mongolia
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria, Camarasauromorpha, Titanosauriformes, Titanosauria, Erketu
- Named by
- Ksepka and Norell (2006)
- Type species
- ellisoni