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WUERHOSAURUS
(where-ho-sore-us)
meaning: "Wuerho lizard"
Wuerhosaurus
Named By: Dong Zhiming in 1973
Time Period: Early Cretaceous, uncertain
Location: China, Xinjiang - Tugulu Group, Inner Mongolia - Ejinhoro Formation
Size: 5-7 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial post cranial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Thyreophora | Stegosauria | Stegosauridae |
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Wuerhosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of China and Mongolia. As such, it was one of the last genera of stegosaurians known to have existed, since most others lived in the late Jurassic.

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