Yandusaurus Yandusaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yandusaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (174–163 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Yandusaurus is a genus of basal neornithischian dinosaur from the middle Jurassic (Bathonian age, approximately 168 to 162 Ma) of eastern Asia. The type species is Y. hongheensis, described in 1979 from the Lower Shaximiao Formation of Sichuan Province, China.
What we know
- Named by He, 1979.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.