Koshisaurus katsuyama Koshisaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Koshisaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125–115 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · Japan
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Koshisaurus is a monospecific genus of basal hadrosauroid from the Kitadani Formation in Japan. The discovery of the genus suggests that hadrosauroids had higher diversity along the eastern margin of Asia in the Early Cretaceous. “Koshi” means an old Japanese regional name including Fukui prefecture where fossils of the genus were discovered.
What we know
- Named by Shibata and Azuma, 2015.
- Fossils found in Asia and Japan.