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beaked plant-eater
Nipponosaurus
Say it like this: “NIP-on-o-SAWR-us”
Nipponosaurus sachalinensis
Nipponosaurus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Russia.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Santonian · Campanian) · roughly 85.7 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1936 · Nagao, T.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 4 m · 13 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Russia
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
The genus Nipponosaurus dates to 1936, the year T. Nagao described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Nipponosaurus date to the Late Cretaceous (Santonian · Campanian), roughly 85.7 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Russia. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Nipponosaurus at a length near 4 m.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.