| Paralitherizinosaurus Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous, | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Therizinosauridae |
| Genus: | †Paralitherizinosaurus Kobayashi et al., 2022 |
| Species: | †P. japonicus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Paralitherizinosaurus japonicus Kobayashi et al., 2022
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Paralitherizinosaurus is an extinct genus of therizinosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Osoushinai Formation of Hokkaido, Japan. The genus contains a single species, P. japonicus, known from a partial right hand and cervical vertebra. Paralitherizinosaurus represents the youngest therizinosaur known from Japan.[1]
- ^ Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu; Takasaki, Ryuji; Fiorillo, Anthony R.; Chinzorig, Tsogtbaatar; Hikida, Yoshinori (2022). "New therizinosaurid dinosaur from the marine Osoushinai Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Japan) provides insight for function and evolution of therizinosaur claws". Scientific Reports. 12 (7207). doi:10.1038/s41598-022-11063-5. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 9065154.