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bird-hipped dinosaur · Doubtful name
Tatisaurus
Say it like this: “DAH-DEE-SAWR-us”
Tatisaurus oehleri
Tatisaurus ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Early Jurassic. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) · roughly 199.5 to 192.9 million years ago
- Named in
- 1965 · Simmons, D. J.; Nash, E. G.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China · Lufeng
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Thyreophora
The story in short
In 1965, D. J. Simmons and E. G. Nash published the name Tatisaurus.
It lived in the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian), roughly 199.5 to 192.9 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Lufeng Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
The fossils of Tatisaurus are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Thyreophora, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Bienosaurus
Bienosaurus lufengensis
Early Jurassic (Hettangian · Sinemurian) · roughly 201.4 to 192.9 million years ago
Emausaurus
Emausaurus ernsti
Early Jurassic (Toarcian) · roughly 184.2 to 174.7 million years ago
Jakapil
Jakapil kaniukura
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago