Outline: a typical ornithopod
Lanzhousaurus
"Lanzhou lizard"
- Lived
- 126 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- You et al. 2005
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
120 million years ago
Field notes
About Lanzhousaurus
What it was like
Lanzhousaurus was a very large plant eater related to Iguanodon, known from a partial skeleton with a lower jaw. It had some of the largest teeth of any plant-eating dinosaur.
It had far fewer teeth than its relatives, but each tooth was huge.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now northwestern China.
How it was found
You and colleagues named Lanzhousaurus in 2005, from a single find.
Close relatives
Other members of Styracosterna
Sources: WikidataNamed in: H. You, Q. Ji, and D. Li. 2005. Lanzhousaurus magnidens gen. et sp. nov. from Gansu Province, China: the largest-toothed herbivorous dinosaur in the world. Geological Bulletin of China 24(9):785-794