Zizhongosaurus
Zizhongosaurus chuanchengensis
Pronounced: zih -
Shong - o - Saw - rus
Diet: Herbivore
(plant-eater)
Name Means: "Zizhong
Lizard"
Length: 20 ft.(6
meters)
Height: 20 ft.(6
meters)
Weight: unknown
Time: Early Jurassic
- 190 m.y.a
Fossil remains for this Dinosaur
have been found in Asia
Zizhongosaurus was a small long-necked plant eater
that lived in China. It is considered to be a relative
of Barapasaurus a
similar dinosaur that lived in India. Zizhongosaurus
lived at a time when the long-necked, or sauropod,
dinosaurs were just beginning to get really large. It
may have been an ancestor to many of the Chinese
sauropods that evolved later.
Not much is known about Zizhongosaurus. It is known
from only a few bones. |
