Gongbusaurus
Sign in to saveGongbusaurus is a genus of ornithischian, perhaps ornithopod, dinosaur that lived between about 160 and 157 million years ago, in the Late Jurassic period. A small herbivore, it is very poorly known. Two species have been assigned to it, but as the original name is based on teeth, there is no concrete evidence to connect the two species. Its fossils have been found in China.
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- Parent taxon
- Neornithischia
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- Gongbusaurus wucaiwanensis.png
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- taxon name
- Gongbusaurus
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- genus
- start time
- 160000000-
- end time
- 157000000-
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Gongbusaurus is a genus of ornithischian, perhaps ornithopod, dinosaur that lived between about 160 and 157 million years ago, in the Late Jurassic period. A small herbivore, it is very poorly known. Two species have been assigned to it, but as the original name is based on teeth, there is no concrete evidence to connect the two species. Its fossils have been found in China.
==Description== Gongbusaurus, by extrapolation from the remains of possible species "G." wucaiwanensis and other basal ornithopods, was a herbivorous bipedal animal around long. The tibia of "G." wucaiwanensis is 19.5 centimetres long. It would have been a strong runner.
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