Chaoyangsaurus
Sign in to saveChaoyangsaurus ("Chaoyang lizard") is a genus of marginocephalian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (about between 150.8 and 145.5 million years ago) of China. Chaoyangsaurus belonged to the Ceratopsia (Greek for "horned faces"). Chaoyangsaurus, like all ceratopsians, was primarily a herbivore.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Chaoyangsauridae
- Named after
- Chaoyang
- Image
- Chaoyangsaurus BW.jpg
- Length
- 1.1
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- taxon name
- Chaoyangsaurus
- Commons category
- Chaoyangsaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- time period
- Late Jurassic
- location of discovery
- China
- main food source
- herbivore
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Chaoyangsaurus ("Chaoyang lizard") is a genus of marginocephalian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (about between 150.8 and 145.5 million years ago) of China. Chaoyangsaurus belonged to the Ceratopsia (Greek for "horned faces"). Chaoyangsaurus, like all ceratopsians, was primarily a herbivore.
==Discovery and naming== thumb|left|Life restoration In 1976, the remains of Chaoyangsaurus were found by Cheng Zhengwu at Ershijiazi, in the Chaoyang area of Liaoning Province in northeastern China. The fossil was added to a travelling exhibition.
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