Yamatosaurus
Field photograph to come
Yamatosaurus
DV-1164 · type species Yamatosaurus izanagii
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Japan
- Named by
- Kobayashi et al. 2021
Field notes
About Yamatosaurus
Yamatosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Yamatosaurus, from Japan. Its fossils come from the Kita-ama Formation. It was named by Kobayashi et al. in 2021.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: Y. Kobayashi, R. Takasaki, and K. Kubota, A. R. Fiorillo. 2021. A new basal hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the latest Cretaceous Kita-ama Formation in Japan implies the origin of hadrosaurids. Scientific Reports 11:8547:1-15