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Nipponosaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0159Russia

Nipponosaurus

DV-0159 · type species Nipponosaurus sachalinensis

Lived
86 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
Found in
Russia
Named by
Nagao 1936

Field notes

About Nipponosaurus

Nipponosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Nipponosaurus, from Russia. It was named by Nagao in 1936.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Close relatives

Other members of Hadrosauridae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: T. Nagao. 1936. Nipponosaurus sachalinensis: a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from Japanese Saghalien. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University, series 4, Geology and Mineralogy 3(2):185-220