Yandusaurus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yandusaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (174–163 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Yandusaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.