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Wuerhosaurus
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This dinosaur possessed long, low back plates that might have been semicircular or rectangular. Only partial skeletons have been found.
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- Pronounced
- woo-uhr-huh-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- Wuerho lizard
- Length
- 7m - 8m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Early Cretaceous
(137 - 99 million years ago) - Found in
- Peoples Republic of China
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Stegosauria, Stegosauridae, Stegosaurinae, Wuerhosaurus
- Named by
- Dong (1973)
- Type species
- homheni