Fukuisaurus tetoriensis Fukuisaurus
"Fukui (Fortunate) lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Fukuisaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Japan
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Fukuisaurus (meaning “Fukui (Fortunate) lizard”) is a genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now Japan. The type species is F. tetoriensis, which was named and described in 2003.
What we know
- Named by Kobayashi & Azuma, 2003.
- Fossils found in Japan.