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Hesperosaurus
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Hesperosaurus is known from a complete skeleton and a skull.
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- Pronounced
- hes-per-oh-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- western lizard
- Length
- 6m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Jurassic
(154 - 142 million years ago) - Found in
- USA
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Stegosauria, Stegosauridae, Stegosaurinae, Hesperosaurus
- Named by
- Carpenter, Miles and Cloward (2001)
- Type species
- mjosi