Wuerhosaurus homheni
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(Wuerho lizard)
"where-oh-sor-uhss"
Describer Dong, 1973
Also Known As --
Type of Species homheni
Order Ornithischia
SubOrder Thyreophora
InfraOrder Stegosauria
Micro-Order --
SuperFamily --
Family Stegosauridae
SubFamily --
Size 19 feet (6 meters) long
Period Early Cretaceous, 130 million years ago
Fossilsite Xinjiang, China
Diet Herbivore
Wuerhosaurus lived during the Early Cretaceous Period, about 130 million years ago in what is now China. Wuerhosaurus is one of the last stegosaurs, it lived 20 million years after its early ancestors, when this herbivores were on their prime during the late Jurassic. Wuerhosaurus had short plates on their backs, they had a slight curvature on them. At the end of its tail, Wuerhosaurus may have grown four pointy spines, but this is just a speculation since no complete fossil skeleton has been found of this dinosaur. Wuerhosaurus is one of the few stegosaurs that lived during the Cretaceous Period.
