Laiyangosaurus
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Laiyangosaurus
DV-1065 · type species Laiyangosaurus youngi
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Zhang et al. 2019
Field notes
About Laiyangosaurus
Laiyangosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Laiyangosaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Jingangkou Formation. It was named by Zhang et al. in 2019.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J.-L. Zhang, X.-L. Wang, and Q. Wang, S.-X. Jiang, X. Cheng, N. Li, R. Qiu. 2019. A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 91(2):e20160920