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Wuerhosaurus
Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
Wuerhosaurus.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Ornithischia
Suborder:
Thyreophora
Infraorder:
Stegosauria
Family:
Stegosauridae
Genus:
Wuerhosaurus

Dong, 1973
Type species
Wuerhosaurus homheni
Dong, 1973
Species
  • W. homheni Dong, 1973
  • W. ordosensis Dong, 1993
Synonyms
  • Stegosaurus homheni (Dong, 1973)

Wuerhosaurus was a stegosaurid dinosaur (related to Stegosaurus) from the Lower Cretaceous of China.

Many details of the skeleton are lacking. It had bony, rounded plates along its back and probably 4 bony spikes at the tip of its tail. It had a shorter body and wider hip bones than other stegosaurids. It was one of the last genera of stegosaur known to survive, since most others died out by the end of the Jurassic.

Images for kids

  • Wuerhosaurus-Paleozoological Museum of China

    Plate of W. homheni, Paleozoological Museum of China

See also

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