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plated dinosaur · Doubtful name
Monkonosaurus
Say it like this: “MONG-kon-o-SAWR-us”
Monkonosaurus lawulacus
Monkonosaurus ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Jurassic · Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Late Jurassic · Early Cretaceous (Kimmeridgian–Hauterivian) · roughly 154.8 to 125.8 million years ago
- Named in
- 1990 · Dong, Z.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 5 m · 16 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China · Loe-ein
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- plated dinosaur · Stegosaur
- Family branch
- Stegosauria
The story in short
The genus Monkonosaurus dates to 1990, the year Z. Dong described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Monkonosaurus date to the Late Jurassic · Early Cretaceous (Kimmeridgian–Hauterivian), roughly 154.8 to 125.8 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Loe-ein Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Monkonosaurus at a length near 5 m.
On the family tree it sits in Stegosauria, among the plated dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Amargastegos
Amargastegos brevicollus
Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago
Baiyinosaurus
Baiyinosaurus baojiensis
Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) · roughly 168.2 to 165.3 million years ago
Bashanosaurus
Bashanosaurus primitivus
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago