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
Azalaki na bomoi ntango nini?
Azalaki na mbangu boni?
Makambo ya kosepelisa
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

Mituna oyo batunaka mingi na ntina na 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
Mpo na bayebi ya badino
- Nkombo ya siansi
- Koshisaurus
- Nkombo epesamaki na
- Shibata and Azuma 20155
- Lisanga
- Badino ya monoko ya ndeke
- Libota / klade
- Hadrosauroidea5
- Klasifikasio
- Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia5
- Mbula ya mabanga
- mbula milio 121 kino 113 (Aptian)5
- Milongo ya mabanga
- Kitadani5
- Bikolo
- Zapo5
- Bafosile oyo ekomami
- 1 na The Paleobiology Database5
- Ntango bamonaki yango
- Koshisaurus was named by Masateru Shibata and Yoichi Azuma in 2015 based on fossils from the Kitadani Formation in Fukui, Japan.21
- Naino bazali kowelana
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Koshisaurus grew, because only partial fossils have been found.2
Esika makambo euti
- 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): mbula, bisika, milongo ya mabanga, klasifikasio.
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