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 | |
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.