Lanzhousaurus
"Lanzhou lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lanzhousaurus 10 m (33 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 10 m (33 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (130 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Lanzhousaurus (meaning “Lanzhou lizard”) is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in the Gansu region of what is now China during the Early Cretaceous (Barremian). Described by You, Ji, and Li in 2005, the type and only species is Lanzhousaurus magnidens, known from a partial skeleton recovered from the Hekou Group. It has been estimated to be about 10 m in length and 6 t in weight.
What we know
- Named by You, Ji & Li, 2005.
- Body length estimated at about 10 m.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Lanzhousaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.