Outline: a typical ornithopod
Shuangmiaosaurus
- Lived
- 106 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- You et al. 2003
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
105 million years ago
Field notes
About Shuangmiaosaurus
What it was like
Shuangmiaosaurus was a large relative of the duckbills, a plant eater known from part of an upper and lower jaw.
Its world
It lived in the Cretaceous, in what is now China. It comes from the Sunjiawan Formation, where it shared the land with the ankylosaur Crichtonpelta and the sauropod Borealosaurus.
How it was found
You and colleagues named Shuangmiaosaurus in 2003.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: H. You, Q. Ji, and J. Li, Y. Li. 2003. A new hadrosauroid dinosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Liaoning, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 77(2):148-154