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Shamosaurus
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A skull and partial skeleton of Shamosaurus have been found, but not enough to estimate its full length.
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- Pronounced
- shah-maw-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- desert lizard
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Early Cretaceous
(121 - 99 million years ago) - Found in
- Mongolia
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Ankylosauromorpha, Ankylosauria, Ankylosauridae, Shamosaurus
- Named by
- Tumanova (1983)
- Type species
- scutatus