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bird-hipped dinosaur
Yandusaurus
Say it like this: “YEN-DOO-SAWR-us”
Yandusaurus hongheensis
Yandusaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago
- Named in
- 1979 · He, X.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 3 m · 10 ft
- Weight
- 7–140 kg · 15–309 lb
- Found in
- China · Shaximiao
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Neornithischia
The story in short
The genus Yandusaurus dates to 1979, the year X. He described it. The name means “yandu lizard.”
Fossils referred to Yandusaurus date to the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian), roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Shaximiao Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Yandusaurus at a length near 3 m and a body mass around 7–140 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Neornithischia, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Agilisaurus
Agilisaurus louderbacki
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago
Enigmacursor
Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian · Tithonian) · roughly 154.8 to 143.1 million years ago
Hexinlusaurus
Hexinlusaurus multidens
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago