NAME: Meaning - Wuerhosaurus means "lizard from Wuerho, China"
Pronounced woo-EHR-ho-SAWR-us
Named By - Dong Zhiming
When Named - 1973
DIET: Herbivore (plant-eater)
SIZE: Length - 27 ft (8.1 m) long
Height - 6 ft (1.8 m) tall at the hips
Weight - about 4 tons
WHEN IT LIVED: Early Cretaceous period, about 135-120 million years ago
WHERE IT LIVED: Fossils have been found in Xinjiang, China, Asia.
FOSSILS: A partial fossil (without a complete skull) has been found.
CLASSIFICATION: Kingdom Animalia (animals)
Phylum Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain)
Class Archosauria (diapsids with socket-set teeth, etc.)
Order Ornithischia - bird-hipped dinosaurs
Suborder Thyreophora - armored dinosaurs
Family Stegosauria - plated dinosaurs
Genus Wuerhosaurus
Species W. homheni (type species named by Dong, 1973)

INTERESTING
FACTS: Wuerhosaurus was a stegosaurid (related to Stegosaurus) that had bony, rounded plates along its back and 4 bony spikes at the tip of its tail (thagomizers). It had a shorter body and wider hip bones than other stegosaurids.