Outline: a typical ornithopod
Weewarrasaurus
"Weewarra lizard"
- Lived
- 101 to 94 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Australia
- Named by
- Bell et al. 2018
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
95 million years ago
Field notes
About Weewarrasaurus
What it was like
Weewarrasaurus was a small, two-legged plant eater, known only from two lower jaws. Its teeth had ridges and small bumps along the edges.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Australia. Its bones come from the Griman Creek Formation, where it shared the land with the small plant eater Fostoria.
How it was found
Bell and colleagues named Weewarrasaurus in 2018. Its jaw bone had turned to opal, a gemstone, and was found by a miner digging for opals.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Elasmaria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: P. R. Bell, M. C. Herne, and T. Brougham, E. T. Smith. 2018. Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia. PeerJ 6:e6008:1-40