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Plant-eating dinosaurs

Ornithischia 

New image Huayangosaurus

"Lesotho lizard"

Lesothosaurus diagnosticus

Naming person...P.M. Galton/1978

Fabrosauridae

1m long/Late PermianEarly Jurassic/Lesotho

Lesothosaurus was a small, early, lightly-built dinosaur. It was an plant-eater and a fast, agile runner. Lesothosaurus was small and lizard-like, about 1 m long.

Lesothosaurus walked on two long legs, had four-toed feet, five-fingered hands, short arms.

レソトサウルス・ディアグノティクス

"limb lizard"

Scelidsaurus oehleri

Naming peron.....Owen /1868

Thyreophora

3m-4m long / 200-250kg /Late Jurassic/England,Arizona

 

Stegosauria

"Huayango lizard" New

Huayangosaurus taibaii

Naming person.......Zhiming Dong, Tang & Zhou /1982

Huayangosauridae

4m long/1-4 tMiddle Jurassic Chaina

"pointed lizard"

Kentrosaurus aethiopicus

Naming person......Hennig,/1915

Stegosauridae/Stegosaurinae

2−5m longLate JurassicTanzania

"Tuo River lizard"

 

Tuojiangosaurus multispinus

Naming persons......Dong, Li, Zhou & Zhang/1973

Stegosauridae

7m longLate Jurassic/China

ステゴサウル

"roofed lizard"

 

Stegosaurus armatus

Naming person......Marsh/ 1877

Stegosauridae/Stegosaurinae

6−9m long/2t/Late JurassicAmerica

"Wuerho lizard"

 

Wuerhosaurus  homheni

Naming person......Dong/1973

Stegosauridae/Stegosaurinae

 5m longEarly Cretaceous/China

"western lizard"

Hesperosaurus  mjosi

Naming Persons…Carpenter, Miles & Cloward / 2001

Stegosauridae/Stegosaurinae

Diet herbivorous

?m long/? Kg/ Late Jurassic/ Wyoming

 

Hesperosaurus was It is more primitive than Stegosaurus, the sister group of Dacentrurus.

It had a single row of rounded plates running down its back.

It also had four bony spikes at the end of the tail.

The big spine of the shoulder is unconfirmed.

 

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