Wuerhosaurus

Wuerho lizard

• Wuerho · Chinese (place name) · Wuerho (Urho), a district in Xinjiang, China
• sauros · Greek · lizard

Wuerhosaurus is named after Wuerho (Urho), a district in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang, north-western China, near where the first fossils were found. It is combined with the Greek word for lizard. The name therefore means 'Wuerho lizard'. It is one of the last known stegosaurs, a plated dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous.

Named by

Dong

Year named

1973

Period

Early Cretaceous

Found in

Lianmuqin Formation (Tugulu Group), Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China

A stegosaurian dinosaur. The type species is W. homheni. Its validity and the referral of other species (such as W. ordosensis from Inner Mongolia) have been debated, and the material is fragmentary, so some researchers doubt how well it is diagnosed.