Outline: a typical ornithopod
Wulagasaurus
"Wulaga lizard"
Type species Wulagasaurus dongi
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Godefroit et al. 2008
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Wulagasaurus
What it was like
Wulagasaurus was a duck-billed plant eater without a hollow crest. It is known from parts of the skull, arms and hips.
It is an early member of the branch of hadrosaurs that includes Edmontosaurus and Saurolophus.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the very end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now northeastern China. Its bones come from the Yuliangzi Formation, where it shared the land with the crested hadrosaurs Charonosaurus and Amurosaurus.
How it was found
Godefroit and colleagues named Wulagasaurus in 2008. Its bones were found in a bone bed where most of the remains belong to crested hadrosaurs.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: P. Godefroit, S. Hai, and T. Yu, P. Lauters. 2008. New hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the uppermost Cretaceous of northeastern China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(1):47-74