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Wuerhosaurus

Wuerhosaurus - Meaning: Lizard of Wuerho

Wuerhosaurus (Woo-air-hoe-sore-uss) is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur that lived in the Valanginian - Albian ages, during the Early Cretaceous Period, 135 million years ago, in China. Wuerhosaurus was one of the last genera of stegosaur known to survive, since most others died out in the late Jurassic.

Dinosaur Wuerhosaurus

Wuerhosaurus Characteristics

Wuerhosaurus was an armoured dinosaur and measured 27 feet (8.1 metres) in length, 6 feet (1.8 metres) tall at the hips and weighed 4 tons. Wuerhosaurus was a stegosaurid (related to Stegosaurus) that had bony, rounded plates along its back and 4 bony spikes at the tip of its tail (thagomizers) that were used as self-defence. It had a shorter body and wider hip bones than other stegosaurids. Wuerhosaurus had a very small head and probably many cheek teeth. It was a quadrupedal dinosaur and walked on all 4 legs. It may have had hoof-like feet.


Wuerhosaurus was a herbivore. Wuerhosaurus was lower to the ground than most other stegosaurs. Scientists believe that this was an adaptation to let it feed on low-lying vegetation.


Only a few scattered bones of Wuerhosaurus have been found, making a full restoration difficult. The remains consisted of a skull-less fragmentary skeleton and some bones from the tail of a second individual.


Wuerhosaurus was named in 1973 by the Chinese dinosaurologist Dong Zhiming.

WUERHOSAURUS CLASSIFICATION:
Kingdom:
Animalia (animals)
Phylum:
Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain)
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Ornithischia
Suborder:
Thyreophora
Infraorder:
Stegosauria
Family:
Stegosauridae
Genus:
Wuerhosaurus
Species:
W. homheni Dong, 1973 (type), W. ordosensis Dong, 1993









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