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beaked plant-eater
Convolosaurus
Say it like this: “kon-vuh-luh-SAWR-us”
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Convolosaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Aptian) · roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2019 · Andrzejewski, K. A.; Winkler, D. A.; Jacobs, L. L.
- Hip height
- 1 m · 3 ft
- Length
- 2.5–3 m · 8–10 ft
- Weight
- 50 kg · 110 lb
- Found in
- the United States · Twin Mountains
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Rhabdodontomorpha
The story in short
The genus Convolosaurus dates to 2019, the year K. A. Andrzejewski and colleagues described it. The name means “flocking lizard.”
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Aptian), roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Twin Mountains Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Convolosaurus at a length near 2.5–3 m, hips about 1 m high, and a body mass around 50 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Rhabdodontomorpha, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.