Koshisaurus katsuyama
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Koshisaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125–115 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · Japan
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Koshisaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.