Outline: a typical sauropod
Microdontosaurus
"small tooth lizard"
Type species Microdontosaurus dayensis
- Lived
- 175 to 162 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Zhao 1983
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
170 million years ago
Field notes
About Microdontosaurus
What it was like
Microdontosaurus was a sauropod, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from very little and was never fully described.
Its world
It lived in the Middle Jurassic, in what is now China.
How it was found
Zhao named Microdontosaurus in 1983. The type species is Microdontosaurus dayensis. Because it was never properly described, most scientists treat the name as doubtful.
Close relatives
Other members of Sauropoda
Sources: WikidataNamed in: Z. Dong. 1992. Dinosaurian Faunas of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing