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dome-headed dinosaur
Wannanosaurus
Say it like this: “WAHN-NAHN-o-SAWR-us”
Wannanosaurus yansiensis
Wannanosaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1977 · Hou, L. H.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 0.6 m · 2 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China · Xiaoyan
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- dome-headed dinosaur · Pachycephalosaur
- Family branch
- Pachycephalosauria
The story in short
The genus Wannanosaurus dates to 1977, the year L. H. Hou described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Xiaoyan Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Wannanosaurus at a length near 0.6 m.
On the family tree it sits in Pachycephalosauria, among the dome-headed dinosaurs.