Chaoyangsaurus Chaoyangsaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Chaoyangsaurus 1 m (3.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (148 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Chaoyangsauridae
Chaoyangsaurus (“Chaoyang lizard”) is a genus of marginocephalian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (about between 150.8 and 145.5 million years ago) of China. Chaoyangsaurus belonged to the Ceratopsia (Greek for “horned faces”). Chaoyangsaurus, like all ceratopsians, was primarily a herbivore.
What we know
- Named by Zhao, Cheng, & Xu, 1999.
- Body length estimated at about 1 m.
- Fossils found in China.