Lanzhousaurus Lanzhousaurus
"Lanzhou lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lanzhousaurus 10 m (33 ft) long
6 people holding hands
- Length
- 10 m (33 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (130 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.