Protognathosaurus oxyodon Protognathosaurus
"early jaw lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Protognathosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (168.2–161.5 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Cetiosauridae
Protognathosaurus (meaning “early jaw lizard”) is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Lower Shaximiao Formation in Sichuan, present-day China.
What we know
- Named by Zhang, 1988.
- Fossils found in China.