Outline: a typical ornithopod
Nanningosaurus
"Nanning lizard"
Type species Nanningosaurus dashiensis
- Lived
- 101 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Mo et al. 2007
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Nanningosaurus
What it was like
Nanningosaurus was a plant eater related to the duck-billed dinosaurs, known from parts of the skull, arms and legs.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now southern China.
How it was found
Mo and colleagues named Nanningosaurus in 2007, from a single find. Its name comes from a nearby city.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. Mo, Z. Zhao, and W. Wang, X. Xu. 2007. The first hadrosaurid dinosaur from southern China. Acta Geologica Sinica 81(4):550-554