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Fabrosauridae

Gongbusaurus shiyii

Generic small ornithischian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Gongbusaurus 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic small ornithischian body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Gongbusaurus
Length
1.5 m (4.9 ft)
Period
Late Jurassic (160–157 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Fabrosauridae

Gongbusaurus is a genus of ornithischian, perhaps ornithopod, dinosaur that lived between about 160 and 157 million years ago, in the Late Jurassic period. A small herbivore, it is very poorly known. Two species have been assigned to it, but as the original name is based on teeth, there is no concrete evidence to connect the two species. Its fossils have been found in China.

What we know

  • Named by Dong, Zhou, & Zhang, 1983.
  • Body length estimated at about 1.5 m.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Gongbusaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.