Outline: a typical early ornithischian
Koreanosaurus
"Korean lizard"
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early ornithischians, Thescelosauridae
- Found in
- South Korea
- Named by
- Huh et al. 2011
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Koreanosaurus
What it was like
Koreanosaurus was a small plant eater that probably walked on two legs. Its arms were strong, and it may have dug burrows like its relative Oryctodromeus.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now South Korea. It comes from the Seonso Conglomerate.
How it was found
Huh and colleagues named Koreanosaurus in 2011.
Close relatives
Other members of Thescelosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: M. Huh, D.-G. Lee, and J.-K. Kim, J.-D. Lim, P. Godefroit. 2011. A new basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of South Korea. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 259(1):1-24