Yingshanosaurus

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Name	Yingshanosaurus
Diet	Herbivore
Weight	1000 kilos
Length	5 meters
Height	5.5 meters
Period	Late Jurassic

Yingshanosaurus was a genus of stegosaurian dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic. It roamed what is now China about 155 million years ago.

It was a herbivorous dinosaur that stood on four legs. It had a pair of wing-like spines on its shoulder about 8 centimeters long, similar in shape and relative size to those of Gigantspinosaurus. It had a large trapezoidal base on the shoulder spine. The bony plates were small and relatively low, triangular in shape. The huge plates were about fifteen centimeters high and twenty centimeters long from the base, similar to those of Hesperosaurus but smaller in relative size.

Yingshanosaurus was estimated to be about four to five meters long.

What does Yingshanosaurus mean?

The name Yingshanosaurus means "Reptile of the Golden Hills".

What did Yingshanosaurus eat?

It was a herbivorous dinosaur that stood on four legs.

When did Yingshanosaurus live?

Yingshanosaurus was a genus of stegosaurian dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic. It roamed what is now China about 155 million years ago.

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References

Zhou, S.W. (1984). "Stegosaurs. The Middle Jurassic dinosaurian fauna from Dashanpu, Zigong, Sichuan. Volume 2. Chengdo: Sichuan Scientific and Technological Publishing House. pp. 1-52.
S. Zhou, 1986, "De l'origine et de l'évolution systématique des Stegosauria à la lumière des fossiles connus", Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 September 1985.Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse pp 31-38.
Zhu Songlin, 1994, "记四川盆地营山县一剑龙化石 [Record of a fossil stegosaur from Yingshan in the Sichuan Basin]", Sichuan Cultural Relics, 1994(S1): 8-14
Maidment, Susannah C.R.; Guangbiao Wei (2006). "A review of the Late Jurassic stegosaurs (Dinosauria, Stegosauria) from the People's Republic of China".. Geological Magazine 143 (5): 621-634. doi:10.1017/S0016756806002500. Accessed June 29, 2008.

Fun Facts

The name Yingshanosaurus means "Reptile of the Golden Hills".
It was an herbivorous dinosaur.
He stood on all fours.
It had a pair of wing-shaped spines on its shoulder about 8 centimeters long.