Ratchasimasaurus Ratchasimasaurus
"Nakhon Ratchasima lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ratchasimasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (120–113 Mya)
- Place
- Thailand
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Ratchasimasaurus (meaning “Nakhon Ratchasima lizard”) is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from Early Cretaceous (Aptian stage) Khok Kruat Formation of Nakhon Ratchasima province in northeastern Thailand. The type and only species is R. suranareae, named after Thao Suranari, a 19th-century war heroine. It was considered by one study to be a nomen dubium, diagnosed with characters widespread in Styracosterna.
What we know
- Named by Shibata, Jintasakul & Azuma, 2011.
- Fossils found in Thailand.