Huayangosaurus is a genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of China. The name derives from `Huayang` (華陽), an alternate name for Sichuan (the province where it was discovered), and `saurus`, meaning `lizard`. It lived during the Bathonian to Callovian stages, around 165 million years ago, some 20 million years before its...
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(pronounced hwah-YANG-oh-SAWR-us) Huayangosaurus was a stegosaurid, a dinosaur with a double row of spiky triangular plates and spikes running along its back. It was an quadrupedal herbivore (a plant-eater) 13 feet (4 m) long that lived during the mid-Jurassic period (about 170 million years ago). It was found in China and was named in 1982 by Zhim...
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Huayangosaurus A “Huayang lizard” from Middle Jurassic Huayang, Shanxi Province, China. The Chinese name is said to have been “inspired by the Jin Dynasty (265-317 A.D.) book Hua Yang Guo Zhi. Named by Chinese paleontologists Zhiming Dong, Tang Zhilu, and Shiwu Zhou in 1982.
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