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Silhouette of Wuerhosaurus

Wuerhosaurus

Wuerhosaurus homheni (Dong 1973)

Early Cretaceous (Albian) · 137.1–100.5 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview

Wuerhosaurus homheni is a stegosaur dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous, roughly 137.1–100.5 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by (Dong 1973). The species is represented by 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Record Completeness

How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record

~11%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time

Where Wuerhosaurus sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Wuerhosaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

These species share Wuerhosaurus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.

predator–prey
Erectopus
Erectopus superbus
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predator–prey
Subtiliolithus
Subtiliolithus hyogoensis
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predator–prey
Suchomimus
Suchomimus tenerensis
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coexisted–with
Psittacosaurus
Psittacosaurus mongoliensis
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coexisted–with
Atlascopcosaurus
Atlascopcosaurus loadsi
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coexisted–with
Polacanthus
Polacanthus foxii
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coexisted–with
Ouranosaurus
Ouranosaurus nigeriensis
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same–clade
Mongolostegus
Mongolostegus exspectabilis
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