Erketu

Pronunciation:
er-kee-tu
Name meaning:
'Erketu = Tengri (a Mongolian creator-god)'

© Berislav Krzic

Type of dinosaur:
sauropod
Length:
15.0m
Diet:
herbivorous
When it lived:
Early Cretaceous, 0 million years ago
Found in:
Mongolia

Erketu is known from articulated cervical vertebrae (backbone), a sternal plate (breastbone) and an articulated lower leg.

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria, Camarasauromorpha, Titanosauriformes, Titanosauria
Named by:
Ksepka and Norell (2006)
Type species:
ellisoni