Nanyangosaurus

Say it: nan-YANG-oh-SORE-us

Name means: “Nanyang lizard”1

Ate: PlantsBeaked plant-eatersLate Cretaceous

Nanyangosaurus was a small, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now China. It had no thumb spike like some of its relatives, and its hand was missing the first finger.1

Lived

94 to 72 million years ago4

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Houzhuang village, Neixiang county, Henan Province, China4 1

Food

Plants4

Length

4 to 5 m1

estimated

Weight

1.5 tonnes3

estimate

Height

1.5 m3

hip height estimate

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

How tall was it?

hip height estimate

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 1 cars

as long as 5 dogs nose to tailas long as 28 bananas end to endas heavy as 50 big dogsas heavy as 300 watermelonsup to the handle of a door

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Nanyangosaurus had no thumb spike, unlike many of its relatives.1

Its first finger was completely missing, including the first metacarpal bone.1

The dinosaur's forelimbs were relatively long, with a long hand.1

Nanyangosaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous, about 94 to 72 million years ago.4

The only known skeleton is partial and lacks the skull.1

Thousands of dinosaur eggs were found at the same site as Nanyangosaurus.2

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Scientific name: Nanyangosaurus
Named by: Xu et al. 20004
Group: Beaked plant-eaters
Family / clade: Hadrosauroidea4
Classification: Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia4
Age of the rocks: 94 to 72 million years (Turonian / Campanian)4
Rock formations: Majiacun4
Countries: China4
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: Nanyangosaurus was named in 2000 by Xu Xing, Zhao Xijin, Lü Junchang, Huang Wanbo, Li Zhanyang, and Dong Zhiming. The skeleton was found in 1994 in Henan Province, China.1
Still debated: Scientists are not sure exactly how old the rocks are that contained Nanyangosaurus. Some think it lived during the Albian stage, but others say it was Turonian to Campanian.1

Where the facts come from

Nanyangosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
A NEW IGUANODONTIAN FROM SANGPING FORMATION OF NEIXIANG, HENAN AND ITS STRATIGRAPHICAL IMPLICATION (vertpala.ac.cn)
NANYANGOSAURUS - DinoChecker dinosaur archive (dinochecker.com)
Nanyangosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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