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beaked plant-eater
Charonosaurus
Say it like this: “kuh-ROH-nuh-SOR-uhs”
Charonosaurus jiayinensis
Charonosaurus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 2000 · Godefroit, P.; Zan, S.; Jin, L.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 10 m · 33 ft
- Weight
- 5 tonnes
- Found in
- China · Yuliangzi
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
The genus Charonosaurus dates to 2000, the year P. Godefroit and colleagues described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Yuliangzi Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Charonosaurus at a length near 10 m and a body mass around 5 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.