Tuojiangosaurus
Sign in to saveTuojiangosaurus (meaning "Tuo River lizard") is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period, recovered from the Upper Shaximiao Formation of what is now Sichuan Province in China.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Stegosauria
- Named after
- Tuo River
- Mass
- 2.8
- Image
- Stegosaurus Skeleton (10096836254).jpg
- Height
- 2
- Length
- 7.0
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- Commons category
- Tuojiangosaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Tuojiangosaurus
- Commons gallery
- Tuojiangosaurus
- taxon common name
- 沱江龍
- location of discovery
- China
- start time
- 160000000-
- time period
- Late Jurassic
- main food source
- herbivore
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- Notes
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Tuojiangosaurus (meaning "Tuo River lizard") is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period, recovered from the Upper Shaximiao Formation of what is now Sichuan Province in China.
==Description== thumb|left|Size comparison Tuojiangosaurus was a large stegosaur, reaching in length and in body mass. Physically similar to the North American Stegosaurus, Tuojiangosaurus is the best understood of the Chinese stegosaurs.
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