Fukuisaurus

DV-0513 · type species Fukuisaurus tetoriensis

Lived: 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Length: about 4.7 m (15 ft)
Group: Ornithopods
Found in: Japan
Named by: Kobayashi and Azuma 2003

Field notes

About Fukuisaurus

Fukuisaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 113 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Fukuisaurus, from Japan. Its fossils come from the Kitadani Formation. It was named by Kobayashi and Azuma in 2003.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

115 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

To scale

How big was Fukuisaurus?

Fukuisaurus: about 4.7 m (15 ft) · Person: 1.8 m (6 ft)Silhouette: typical ornithopod shape

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Hadrosauroidea.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: Y. Kobayashi and Y. Azuma. 2003. A new iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation of Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):166-175