Fukuisaurus
Sign in to saveFukuisaurus (meaning "Fukui (Fortunate) lizard") is a genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now Japan. The type species is F. tetoriensis, which was named and described in 2003.
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- Parent taxon
- Hadrosauroidea
- Named after
- Fukui Prefecture
- Image
- フクイサウルス全身骨格.jpg
- Length
- 4.7
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- taxon name
- Fukuisaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- time period
- Early Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- Japan
- main food source
- herbivore
- Commons category
- Fukuisaurus
- time of discovery or invention
- 1989-00-00
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Fukuisaurus (meaning "Fukui (Fortunate) lizard") is a genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now Japan. The type species is F. tetoriensis, which was named and described in 2003.
==Discovery and naming== Remains of Fukuisaurus were discovered in 1989, in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, in rocks from the Kitadani Formation, dating to the Barremian. The type species, Fukuisaurus tetoriensis, was described in 2003 by Yoshitsugu Kobayashi and Yoichi Azuma. The genus name refers to Fukui; the specific name to the geological Tetori Group. The type specimens or cotypes are FPDM-V-40-1, a right maxilla, and FPDM-V-40-2, a right jugal. Further elements of a skull and a right sternal plate had been recovered. Since 2003 much more extensive finds have been made and much of the skeleton is now known.
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