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GOBISAURUS
(go-bee-sore-us)
meaning: "Gobi lizard - after the Gobi Desert"
Gobisaurus
Named By: Matthew K. Vickaryous, Anthony P. Russell, Philip J. Currie & XiinJin Zhao in 2001
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 92 Ma
Location: Mongolia - Ulansuhai Formation
Size: Total size uncertain, skull 46 centimetres long, 45 centimetres wide
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Skull and additional post cranial remains (the latter still awaiting description at time of writing)
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Thyreophora | Ankylosauria | Ankylosauridae |
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Gobisaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous basal ankylosaurid ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of China (Nei Mongol Zizhiqu). The genus is monotypic, containing only the species Gobisaurus domoculus.

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