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Nipponosaurus
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Our knowledge of Nipponosaurus is based on a partial skull and postcranial of a juvenile.
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- Pronounced
- nip-on-oh-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- Japanese lizard
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(89 - 84 million years ago) - Found in
- Russia
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Cerapoda, Ornithopoda, Euornithopoda, Iguanadontia, Euiguanadontia, Dryomorpha, Ankylopollexia, Iguanodontoidea, Hadrosauridae, Euhadrosauria, Lambeosaurinae, Nipponosaurus
- Named by
- Nagao (1936)
- Type species
- sachalinensis