Wuerhosaurus Wuerhosaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Wuerhosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (135.2 Mya)
- Place
- China · Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
Wuerhosaurus is an extinct genus of stegosaurine stegosaur dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of China. The genus contains two species, Wuerhosaurus homheni, the type species named in 1973, and Wuerhosaurus ordosensis, named in 1993. It is one of the youngest (most recent) known stegosaurs in the fossil record, alongside Mongolostegus and Yanbeilong.
What we know
- Named by Dong, 1973.
- Body length estimated at about 5 m.
- Fossils found in China and Mongolia.