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bird-hipped dinosaur
Albalophosaurus
Say it like this: “AL-ba-LOH-fo-SOR-us”
Albalophosaurus yamaguchiorum
Albalophosaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Japan.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago
- Named in
- 2009 · Ohashi, T.; Barrett, P. M.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 0.9 m · 3 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Japan · Kuwajima
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Marginocephalia
The story in short
The genus Albalophosaurus dates to 2009, the year T. Ohashi and P. M. Barrett described it.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Barremian), roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago. Finds come from Japan, including the Kuwajima Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Albalophosaurus at a length near 0.9 m.
On the family tree it sits in Marginocephalia, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.