Agilisaurus
Field photograph to come
Agilisaurus
DV-0331
- Lived
- 171 to 155 million years ago, Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 1.5 m (5 ft)
- Group
- Early ornithischians
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Peng 1990
Field notes
About Agilisaurus
Agilisaurus was a plant-eating early ornithischian that lived in the Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 171 to 155 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Agilisaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Shaximiao Formation. It was named by Peng in 1990.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
165 million years ago
To scale
How big was Agilisaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Neornithischia.
- NanosaurusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- EnigmacursorLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- PulaosaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- YandusaurusMiddle Jurassic
- MinimocursorLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- HexinlusaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- SanxiasaurusEarly Jurassic to Middle Jurassic
- StormbergiaEarly Jurassic
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: G. Peng. 1992. Jurassic ornithopod Agilisaurus louderbacki (Ornithopoda: Fabrosauridae) from Zigong, Sichuan, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 30(1):39-53