Koshisaurus
Koshisaurus was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Japan. It walked on two legs and had a beak for snipping leaves. This dinosaur was one of the earliest relatives of the duck-billed hadrosaurs.21
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Que velocidade alcanzaba?
Datos curiosos
Koshisaurus lived about 121 to 113 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous.2
It was a basal hadrosauroid, meaning it was an early relative of the duck-billed dinosaurs.1
Koshisaurus had an antorbital fossa, a hole in front of its eye socket on the skull, which is a primitive feature.1
Its teeth had at least three subsidiary ridges on the outer side, helping it grind plants.1
Koshisaurus shared its home with other dinosaurs like Fukuisaurus, Fukuiraptor, and Fukuititan.1

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Koshisaurus
?How big was Koshisaurus?
Scientists have not found enough bones to know its full size, but it was likely smaller than later duck-billed dinosaurs. Only a partial skeleton is known.13
?What did Koshisaurus eat?
It ate plants, using its beak to snip leaves and its ridged teeth to grind them up.43
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Koshisaurus
- Bautizado por
- Shibata and Azuma 20155
- Grupo
- Herbívoros con bico
- Familia / clado
- Hadrosauroidea5
- Clasificación
- Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia5
- Idade das rochas
- de 121 a 113 millóns de anos (Aptian)5
- Formacións rochosas
- Kitadani5
- Países
- Xapón5
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database5
- Descubrimento
- Koshisaurus was named by Masateru Shibata and Yoichi Azuma in 2015 based on fossils from the Kitadani Formation in Fukui, Japan.21
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Koshisaurus grew, because only partial fossils have been found.2
De onde veñen os datos
- New basal hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Fukui, central Japan | Zootaxa (biotaxa.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Koshisaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- 勝山市の発掘現場から発見された恐竜に新しい学名が付けられました|恐竜博物館の調査研究|FPDM: 福井県立恐竜博物館 (dinosaur.pref.fukui.jp)
- Koshisaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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