Koshisaurus

DV-0922 · type species Koshisaurus katsuyama

Lived: 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ornithopods
Found in: Japan
Named by: Shibata and Azuma 2015

Field notes

About Koshisaurus

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

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Koshisaurus, from Japan. Its fossils come from the Kitadani Formation. It was named by Shibata and Azuma in 2015.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

115 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Fukuiraptortheropod
Fukuisaurusornithopod
Fukuivenatortheropod
Tyrannomimustheropod
Fukuititansauropod

Close relatives

Other members of Hadrosauroidea.

HaolongEarly Cretaceous
FukuisaurusEarly Cretaceous
GilmoreosaurusLate Cretaceous
ClaosaurusLate Cretaceous
BactrosaurusLate Cretaceous
EolambiaLate Cretaceous
QianjiangsaurusLate Cretaceous
GonkokenLate Cretaceous

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M. Shibata and Y. Azuma. 2015. New basal hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Fukui, central Japan. Zootaxa 3914(4):421-440