Outline: a typical ornithopod
Napaisaurus
Type species Napaisaurus guangxiensis
- Lived
- 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Ji and Zhang 2022
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
115 million years ago
Field notes
About Napaisaurus
What it was like
Napaisaurus was a plant eater related to Iguanodon. It is known from hip bones.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now southern China. Its bones come from the Xinlong Formation, where the sauropods Fusuisaurus and Liubangosaurus also lived.
How it was found
Ji and Zhang named it in 2022. The type species is Napaisaurus guangxiensis.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Styracosterna
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S.-a. Ji and P. Zhang. 2022. [First new genus and species of basal iguanodontian dinosaur (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from southern China]. Acta Geoscientia Sinica 43(1):1-10