List of Asian dinosaurs
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This is a list of dinosaur
s whose remains have been recovered from Asia
exclusive of India
, which was part of a separate landmass for much of the Mesozoic
. More dinosaurs have been discovered in Asia than any other continent so far.
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
s whose remains have been recovered from Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
exclusive of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, which was part of a separate landmass for much of the Mesozoic
Mesozoic
The Mesozoic era is an interval of geological time from about 250 million years ago to about 65 million years ago. It is often referred to as the age of reptiles because reptiles, namely dinosaurs, were the dominant terrestrial and marine vertebrates of the time...
. More dinosaurs have been discovered in Asia than any other continent so far.
List of Asian dinosaurs
Name | Period | Diet | Notes |
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Abrosaurus Abrosaurus Abrosaurus is a genus of macronarian sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period of what is now Asia, one of many dinosaurs found at the Dashanpu Quarry in the Sichuan Province of China. Like most sauropods, Abrosaurus was a quadrupedal herbivore but it was rather small for a sauropod, not... |
Jurassic | herbivore | Small Camarasaurus Camarasaurus Camarasaurus meaning 'chambered lizard', referring to the hollow chambers in its vertebrae was a genus of quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs. It was the most common of the giant sauropods to be found in North America... –like sauropod |
Achillobator Achillobator Achillobator is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia, about 90 million years ago. It was probably an active bipedal predator, hunting with the large sickle-shaped claw on the second toe of each hind foot... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Adasaurus Adasaurus Adasaurus is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Central Asia. It was a small bipedal carnivore with a sickle-shaped claw on the second toe of each hind foot. An adult was perhaps about long.... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Agilisaurus Agilisaurus Agilisaurus is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period of what is now eastern Asia. The name is derived from the Latin agilis meaning 'agile' and the Greek sauros meaning 'lizard', and refers to the agility suggested by its lightweight skeleton and long legs... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Airakoraptor Airakoraptor "Airakoraptor" was a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. It lived in what is now Mongolia and was first described by Perle, Norell & Clark, in 1999. It is considered a nomen nudum because it has not been fully described... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Albalophosaurus Albalophosaurus Albalophosaurus is a genus of cerapod ornithischian dinosaur. It was described in 2009 from remains found in 1997 by Yoshinori Kobayashi from the Kuwajima Formation of central Japan, outcropping in Hakusan in the Ishikawa Prefecture... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Albinykus Albinykus Albinykus is a genus of alvarezsaurid dinosaur. Fossils have been found from Late Cretaceous-age deposits in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. The type species A. baatar was named by Sterling J. Nesbitt, Julia A. Clarke, Alan H. Turner and Mark A... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Alectrosaurus Alectrosaurus Alectrosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of Inner Mongolia. It was a bipedal carnivore with a body shape similar to its much larger relative, Tyrannosaurus rex... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Alioramus Alioramus Alioramus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Asia. The type A. remotus, is known from a partial skull and three metatarsals recovered from Mongolian sediments which were deposited in a humid floodplain between 70 and 65 million years ago. These... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Altirhinus Altirhinus Altirhinus is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of Mongolia.-Description:Altirhinus was herbivorous and bipedal when walking or running, but probably became quadrupedal when feeding from the ground. According to the original description, the entire body... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Alxasaurus Alxasaurus Alxasaurus is a genus of therizinosauroid alxasaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of Inner Mongolia. It is one of the earliest known members of the superfamily Therizinosauroidea, but it already possessed the body shape - including the long neck, short tail, and long hand... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Amtocephale Amtocephale Amtocephale is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from early Late Cretaceous deposits of southern Gobi Desert, Mongolia.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Amtosaurus Amtosaurus Amtosaurus is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur based on a fragmentary skull collected from the Upper Cretaceous Bayanshiree Svita Formation of Mongolia and originally believed to represent an ankylosaurid. Hadrosaurid affinities have also been suggested... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | Based only on fragments of skull |
Amurosaurus Amurosaurus Amurosaurus is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur found in the latest Cretaceous period of eastern Asia. Like most lambeosaurs, it would have been a primarily bipedal herbivore with a "duckbill" shaped snout and a hollow crest on top of its head, although such a crest has not been found... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Anchiornis Anchiornis Anchiornis is a genus of small, feathered, deinonychosaurian dinosaur. The genus Anchiornis contains the type species Anchiornis huxleyi, named in honor of Thomas Henry Huxley, an early proponent of biological evolution, and the first to propose a close evolutionary relationship between birds and... |
Jurassic | carnivore | Smallest known non-avian dinosaur |
Anserimimus Anserimimus Anserimimus is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur, from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It was a lanky, fast-running animal, possibly an omnivore... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Aralosaurus Aralosaurus Aralosaurus meaning "Aral Sea lizard", because it was found in the Aral Sea was a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous of what is now Kazakhstan... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Archaeoceratops Archaeoceratops Archaeoceratops, meaning "ancient horned face", is a genus of basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of north central China. It appears to have been bipedal and quite small with a comparatively large head... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Archaeornithoides Archaeornithoides Archaeornithoides is a genus of maniraptoriform theropod dinosaur. It was found in Late Cretaceous river sandstones of the Djadokhta Formation beds located in Bayn Dzak, Mongolia... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Archaeornithomimus Archaeornithomimus Archaeornithomimus is a genus of ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China, 70 million years ago.... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Arkharavia Arkharavia Arkharavia is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur. It lived in what is now Russia, during the Late Cretaceous. It was described in 2010 by Alifanov and Bolotsky. The type species is A. heterocoelica.-Known material:... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Arstanosaurus Arstanosaurus Arstanosaurus was a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Santonian-Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Bostobinskaya Formation, Kazakhstan. It has had a confusing history, being considered both a hadrosaurid and a ceratopsid, or both at the same time .-History:The genus was based on a maxilla , with... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Asiaceratops Asiaceratops Asiaceratops was a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in China, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan. The type species, A. salsopaludalis, was formally described by Nesov and Kaznyshkina in 1989. A second species, A... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Asiamericana Asiamericana Asiamericana Asiamericana Asiamericana (AY-zha-MER-i-KAHN-a - (Greek: Asia meaning Asia and New Latin America meaning America) was a genus of theropod dinosaur which was named to recognize the occurrence of similar fossil teeth in Central Asia and North America. These regions once formed a... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Asiatosaurus Asiatosaurus Asiatosaurus was a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur which lived during the early Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in China and Mongolia. It is known only from teeth, making it difficult to rely on information until more specimens are found to expand our knowledge.The type species, A.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Auroraceratops Auroraceratops Auroraceratops, meaning "dawn horned face", is a genus of basal neoceratopsian dinosaur, from the Early Cretaceous of north central China... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Avimimus Avimimus Avimimus , meaning "bird mimic" , was a genus of bird-like maniraptoran dinosaur that lived in the late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia, around 70 million years ago.-Description:... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Bactrosaurus Bactrosaurus Bactrosaurus is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur that lived in east China during the late Cretaceous, about 70 mya. The position Bactrosaurus occupies in the Cretaceous makes it one of the earliest known hadrosaurs, and although it is not known from a full skeleton, Bactrosaurus is one of the best... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Bagaceratops Bagaceratops Bagaceratops, meaning "small-horned face" , is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived in what is now Mongolia around 80 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Bagaraatan Bagaraatan Bagaraatan was a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period. Its fossils were found in the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. Bagaraatan may have been around 3–4 metres in length.... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Bainoceratops Bainoceratops Bainoceratops was a genus of dinosaur from the late Campanian in the Late Cretaceous. It was a ceratopsian first described by Tereschenko and Alifanov in 2003... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Bakesaurus Bakesaurus "Bakesaurus" was an ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China. It is mentioned and pictured in the Chinese book The Dinosaur Egg Fossils in Nanyang, China by Zhou S. . There is still uncertainty in the scientific community as to whether or not "Bakesaurus" exists as a valid scientific... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | Uncertain, see article |
Balochisaurus Balochisaurus Balochisaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Pakistan. The type species is B. malkani. The discovery was made near Vitariki by a team of paleontologists from the Geological Survey of Pakistan. Formally described in 2006 by M.S... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Banji Banji Banji is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur. It contains one species, Banji long, named from the Chinese for "striped crest dragon". The species is represented by a single skull and lower jaw. The specimen was donated to the Chinese Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology by an... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Baotianmansaurus Baotianmansaurus Baotianmansaurus is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur. Its fossils have been found in Upper Cretaceous rocks in Henan, China. The type species is B. henanensis, described in 2009.-External links:*... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Barsboldia Barsboldia Barsboldia was a genus of large hadrosaurid dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian Nemegt Formation of Ömnogöv', Mongolia. It is known from a partial vertebral column, partial pelvis, and some ribs... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Beipiaosaurus Beipiaosaurus Beipiaosaurus is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China.The exact classification of therizinosaurs had in the past been hotly debated, since their prosauropod-like teeth and body structure indicate that they were generally herbivorous, unlike typical... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Beishanlong Beishanlong Beishanlong is a genus of giant ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China.-Discovery and naming:Three fossils of Beishanlong were in the early twenty-first century found in northwestern China at the White Ghost Castle site, in the province of Gansu... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Bellusaurus Bellusaurus Bellusaurus was a small short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic which measured about long... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Bienosaurus Bienosaurus Bienosaurus was a dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. The genus was an armoured dinosaur from the Lower Lufeng Formation in Yunnan Province in China.-Discovery and species:... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Bissektipelta Bissektipelta Bissektipelta is an ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. The holotype and only known specimen was collected from the Bissekty Formation , of Dzharakuduk, and the name Bissektipelta refers to this geological formation... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Bolong Bolong Bolong is a genus of iguanodontoid dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous-age Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province, China. It was named by Wu Wen-hao, Pascal Godefroit and Hu Dong-yu in 2010 and the type species is Bolong yixianensis.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Borealosaurus Borealosaurus Borealosaurus was a dinosaur genus from northern China. It was a herbivorous quadrupedal sauropod from the Early Cretaceous Period. The type species was Borealosaurus wimani... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Borogovia Borogovia Borogovia was a theropod dinosaur genus which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, in what is now Mongolia. The agile carnivorous troodontid takes its name from creatures known as 'borogoves' in the Lewis Carroll poem, Jabberwocky.... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Breviceratops Breviceratops Breviceratops was a ceratopsian dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Mongolia. It was related to Protoceratops. The fossils originally described by Maryanska and Osmolska in 1975 and placed in Protoceratops, were moved to the new genus by Kurzanov in 1990.The type species is Breviceratops... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Brohisaurus Brohisaurus Brohisaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic, based on limb fossils. The fossils were discovered in the Kirthar foldbelt in Pakistan. The type species is B. kirthari, described by M.S. Malkani in 2003.-External links:... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Byronosaurus Byronosaurus Byronosaurus is a genus of troodontid dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period. It was named for Byron Jaffe, "in recognition of his family's support for the Mongolian Academy of Sciences-American Museum of Natural History Paleontological Expeditions." The first example of... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Caenagnathasia Caenagnathasia Caenagnathasia is a small oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan.The type species Caenagnathasia martinsoni was named and described in 1993/1994 by Philip Currie, Stephen Godfrey and Lev Nesov... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Caudipteryx Caudipteryx Caudipteryx is a genus of peacock-sized theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Aptian age of the early Cretaceous Period . They were feathered and remarkably birdlike in their overall appearance.... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Ceratonykus Ceratonykus Ceratonykus is a genus of alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur that existed in the late Cretaceous period. The discovery of a fragmented skeleton in Mongolia in early 2009 has led scientists to question where alvarezsaurids fit taxonomically into Theropoda.-Description:Ceratonykus was a small,... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Changchunsaurus Changchunsaurus Changchunsaurus is an extinct genus of small herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur from Early Cretaceous deposits of Gongzhuling, Jilin, China. It is the first named dinosaur genus from Jilin.-Description:... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Changdusaurus Changdusaurus "Changdusaurus" is the informal name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period. It lived in what is now present-day China. "Changdusaurus" is classified as a stegosaurid. The type species was named "Changdusaurus laminoplacodus" by Zhao in 1986, but it has never been formally... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Chaoyangsaurus Chaoyangsaurus Chaoyangsaurus was a marginocephalian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Charonosaurus Charonosaurus Charonosaurus |Charon]]'s lizard") is the name of a genus of dinosaur whose fossils were discovered by Godefroit, Zan & Jin in 2000 on the south bank of the Amur River, dividing China from Russia.-Description:... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Chialingosaurus Chialingosaurus Chialingosaurus is a genus of stegosaur similar to Kentrosaurus from the Upper Shaximiao Formation, Late Jurassic beds in Sichuan Province in China. Its age makes it one of the oldest species of stegosaurs, living about 160 million years ago... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Chiayusaurus Chiayusaurus Chiayusaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from teeth found in Asia. Two species have been named for this obscure genus. It was originally named as Chiayüsaurus, but the ICZN does not permit special characters, so it has become Chiayusaurus... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Chilantaisaurus Chilantaisaurus Chilantaisaurus is a genus of neovenatorid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Ulansuhai Formation of China . The type species, C. tashuikouensis, was described by Hu in 1964. Chilantaisaurus was a large theropod, estimated as weighing between and... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Chingkankousaurus Chingkankousaurus Chingkankousaurus is the name given to a fossilized bone fragment that probably belonged to a theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period Wangshi Series of Shandong province in eastern China. It was identified by Yang Zhongjian Chingkankousaurus (named for the Ch'ing-kang-kou village) is... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Chinshakiangosaurus Chinshakiangosaurus Chinshakiangosaurus was a genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Period. It lived in what is now present-day China. It is classified as a sauropod, but is not well known. The type species, Chinshakiangosaurus chuhghoensis, was first named by Ye, but described by Dong Zhiming in 1992... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Chuandongocoelurus Chuandongocoelurus Chuandongocoelurus named after the Chuandong in Sichuan Province, China, was a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur first described by Chinese paleontologist He in 1984... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Chuanjiesaurus Chuanjiesaurus Chuanjiesaurus was a genus of dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period. It lived in what is now present-day China. It is classified as a sauropod. The type species, Chuanjiesaurus ananensis, was first described by Fang, Pang, Lü, Zhang, Pan, Wang, Li and Cheng in 2000... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Chungkingosaurus Chungkingosaurus Chungkingosaurus, meaning "Chongqing Lizard", is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic-age Upper Shaximiao Formation in what is now China. It is classified as a stegosaurid.-Discovery and species:... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Chuxiongosaurus Chuxiongosaurus Chuxiongosaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic Period. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan Province, southern China... |
Jurassic | omnivore | — |
Citipati Citipati Citipati is a genus of oviraptorid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia . It is one of the best-known oviraptorids, thanks to a number of well-preserved skeletons, including several specimens found in brooding positions atop nests of eggs... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Conchoraptor Conchoraptor Conchoraptor is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of what is now Asia.-Description:... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Crichtonsaurus Crichtonsaurus Crichtonsaurus is a genus of ankylosaurid ankylosaur dinosaur named for Michael Crichton, the author of Jurassic Park. It was an ankylosaurine, and it lived during the late Cretaceous Period. Its fossils were discovered in China, and it was formally described by Dong Zhiming in 2002. The type... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Cryptovolans | Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Daanosaurus Daanosaurus Daanosaurus was a genus of dinosaur. It was a brachiosaurid sauropod which lived during the Late Jurassic. It lived in what is now China, and was similar to Bellusaurus.The type species, described in 2005, is Daanosaurus zhangi.-References:... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Dachongosaurus Dachongosaurus "Dachongosaurus" is the informal name given to an undescribed genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of China. It is known from fossils including at least a partial articulated skeleton from the Dark Red Beds of the Lower Lufeng Series in Yunnan. Possibly a cetiosaur, the "type... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Damalasaurus Damalasaurus "Damalasaurus" is the informal name given to a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. It was a sauropod, though its exact classification within the clade is unknown. Fossils of "Damalasaurus", including a rib, have been found in the Middle Daye Group of Tibet... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Dashanpusaurus Dashanpusaurus Dashanpusaurus is an extinct genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the middle of the Jurassic period. The dinosaur was described in 2005 by a group of Chinese paleontologists. The dinosaur's binomial name, Dashanpusaurus dongi, was named after a prolific dinosaur expert of the Dashanpu... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Datousaurus Datousaurus Datousaurus, meaning either "Chieftain lizard" or "Big-head Lizard" was a dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. It was a sauropod collected from the Lower Shaximiao Formation in Dashanpu, Zigong Sichuan province, China... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Daxiatitan Daxiatitan Daxiatitan is a genus of titanosauriform dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Lanzhou Basin, Gansu Province, northwestern China. It is known from fossils including several neck vertebrae, a shoulder blade, and a thigh bone.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Deinocheirus Deinocheirus Deinocheirus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur, possibly an ornithomimosaurian, which lived in what is now southern Mongolia, during the late Cretaceous Period .-Discovery and naming:... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Dilong Dilong (dinosaur) Dilong is a genus of small tyrannosauroid dinosaur. The only species is Dilong paradoxus. It is from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation near Lujiatun, Beipiao, in the western Liaoning province of China. It lived about 130 million years ago... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Dilophosaurus Dilophosaurus Dilophosaurus was a theropod dinosaur from the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic Period, about 193 million years ago. The first specimens were described in 1954, but it was not until over a decade later that the genus received its current name... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Dongbeititan Dongbeititan Dongbeititan is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Yixian Formation of Beipiao, Liaoning, China. It is based on holotype DNHM D2867, a partial postcranial skeleton including bones from the limbs, shoulder and pelvic girdles, and vertebrae... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Dongyangosaurus Dongyangosaurus Dongyangosaurus is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of Zhejiang, China. The type species, described by Lu et al. in 2008, is D. sinensis. Like other sauropods, Dongyangosaurus would have been a large quadrupedal herbivore.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Elmisaurus Elmisaurus Elmisaurus is an extinct genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a theropod belonging to the Oviraptorosauria. Its fossils have been found in Asia and North America. It is known from only its feet and hands.... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Enigmosaurus Enigmosaurus Enigmosaurus is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, central Asia... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Eomamenchisaurus Eomamenchisaurus Eomamenchisaurus is a genus of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Yuanmou, Yunnan, China. The type species is E. yuanmouensis, described by Lu et al. in 2008.... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Epidendrosaurus | Jurassic | carnivore | See article |
Epidexipteryx Epidexipteryx Epidexipteryx is a genus of small avialan dinosaur, known from one fossil specimen in the collection of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. Epidexipteryx represents the earliest known example of ornamental feathers in the fossil record. The type specimen is... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Equijubus Equijubus Equijubus, meaning "horse mane" after the area in which it was found, is a genus of herbivorous hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern China.-Discovery and naming:... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Erketu Erketu Erketu is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was a sauropod with an "extremely long neck". Its fossils were found in Mongolia.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Erliansaurus Erliansaurus Erliansaurus is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China.A fossil of Erliansaurus was found near Sanhangobi in Inner-Mongolia. The type species, Erliansaurus bellamanus, was described by Xu Xing, Zhang Xiaohong, Paul Sereno, Zhao Xijin, Kuang Xuewen, Han Jun... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Erlikosaurus Erlikosaurus Erlikosaurus is a genus of herbivorous theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period, belonging to the Therizinosauridae. Its fossils, a skull and some post-cranial fragments, were found in the Bayan Shireh Formation of Mongolia, dating to around 90 million years ago.-Discovery and naming:The... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Eshanosaurus Eshanosaurus Eshanosaurus is a possible genus of therizinosaurian dinosaur from the early Jurassic Period. It is known only from a partial lower jawbone. The fossil was found in China... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Eugongbusaurus Eugongbusaurus "Eugongbusaurus" is the informal name given to a genus of dinosaur that lived about 160 to 155 million years ago, in the Late Jurassic. It was either a hypsilophodont, or a less-derived ornithischian... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Euhelopus Euhelopus Euhelopus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous, between 130 and 112 million years ago . It lived in what is now Shandong Province in China. A large herbivore, it weighed approximately 15-20 tons and attained an adult length of 15m... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Ferganasaurus | Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Ferganocephale Ferganocephale Ferganocephale was possibly an early pachycephalosaurian dinosaur. It was from the Middle Jurassic of Kyrgyzstan.The type species, Ferganocephale adenticulatum, was first described by Averianov, Martin, and Bakirov in 2005, and is based solely on teeth from the Callovian. The holotype is ZIN PH... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Fukuiraptor Fukuiraptor Fukuiraptor was a medium-sized carnivore of the Early Cretaceous that lived in what is now Japan. Scientists first thought it was a member of the Dromaeosauridae, but after studying the fossils they now believe it was related to Allosaurus in the family Neovenatoridae. The type specimen is the... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Fukuisaurus Fukuisaurus Fukuisaurus is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was an ornithopod which lived in what is now Japan.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Fukuititan Fukuititan Fukuititan is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Japan. It is known from FPDM-V8468, the associated partial skeleton of a single individual, recovered from the Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry of the Tetori Group, at Katsuyama City... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Fulengia Fulengia Fulengia is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. It was a prosauropod or other basal sauropodomorph. Its fossils were found in China.... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Fusuisaurus Fusuisaurus Fusuisaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Futabasaurus Futabasaurus (dinosaur) "Futabasaurus" is an informal name for a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Japan, known only from a partial shin bone discovered in the Coniacian-age Ashizawa Formation of the Futaba Group. It was coined by David Lambert in 1990 as a conversion from the Japanese nickname... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | Name not published officially and later used for a plesiosaur Futabasaurus Futabasaurus is a genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Fukushima, Japan. Described and named in 2006, it was assigned to the family Elasmosauridae. The length was about 7 m, and the weight was about 3~4 tons. Futabasaurus is the first elasmosaurid found in Japan. The type... |
Gadolosaurus Gadolosaurus "Gadolosaurus" is the informal name given to a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from late Cretaceous-age rocks in Mongolia. Though the name was made public in 1979, it has never been formally described, and the name is considered a nomen nudum. The name "Gadolosaurus" first appeared in a book by... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Gallimimus Gallimimus Gallimimus is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. With individuals as long as , it was one of the largest ornithomimosaurs... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Garudimimus Garudimimus Garudimimus is a basal ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia.-Discovery and naming:... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Gasosaurus Gasosaurus Gasosaurus was a tetanuran dinosaur discovered in Dashanpu, China. The scientific name, meaning "Gas Lizard", honours the gasoline company that found the Dashanpu fossil quarry in Sichuan Province, now named as the Lower Shaximiao Formation. It had strong legs but short arms, and like most... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Gigantoraptor Gigantoraptor Gigantoraptor is a genus of giant oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period. It was discovered in 2005 in the Iren Dabasu Formation, Erlian basin, in Inner Mongolia.-Discovery and naming:... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Gigantspinosaurus Gigantspinosaurus Gigantspinosaurus is a genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It was a stegosaur found in Sichuan, China.... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Gilmoreosaurus Gilmoreosaurus Gilmoreosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Asia. The type species is Gilmoreosaurus mongoliensis. It is believed to be a hadrosaur or iguanodont from the Iren Dabasu Formation of Mongolia, dating to 70 Ma ago. Additional specimens have been described as distinct... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Gobiceratops Gobiceratops Gobiceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. It is based on a skull that is 3.5 centimeters long, from the Khermin Tsav locality in the Barun Goyot Formation of southern Mongolia; the type individual was young. Gobiceratops is thought to have been... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Gobisaurus Gobisaurus Gobisaurus is an extinct genus of basal ankylosaurid ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Ulansuhai Formation of China. The holotype consists of a skull and as yet undescribed postcranial remains. It was first named by Matthew K. Vickaryous, Anthony P. Russell, Philip J... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Gobititan Gobititan Gobititan is a genus of dinosaur from the mid-Cretaceous. The genus is based on one partial skeleton, composed of spinal vertebrae and a partial limb. Based on the partial skeleton, it is believed to have been a basal titanosaur, a type of sauropod. The type species, Gobititan shenzhouensis, was... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Gongbusaurus Gongbusaurus Gongbusaurus is a genus of ornithischian, perhaps ornithopod, dinosaur that lived between about 160 and 155 million years ago, in the Late Jurassic period. A small herbivore, it is very poorly known. Two species have been assigned to it, but as the original name is based on teeth, there is no... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Gongxianosaurus Gongxianosaurus Gongxianosaurus is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Period. It was a sauropod or prosauropod from China.The type species, G. shibeiensis, was described by He, Wang, Lui, Zhou, Lui, Cai and Dai in 1998.-References:... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Goyocephale Goyocephale Goyocephale is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous period. It lived in what is now Mongolia.Goyocephale probably weighed 10–40 kg. The type species, Goyocephale lattimorei, was formally described by Perle, Maryañska, and Osmólka from an incomplete... |
Cretaceous | herbivore/omnivore | — |
Graciliceratops Graciliceratops Graciliceratops is a Ceratopsian dinosaur first described by paleontologist Paul Sereno in 2000. It is known from the Late Cretaceous period and its fossils were found in Mongolia... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Graciliraptor Graciliraptor Graciliraptor is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period. It is a microraptorine dromaeosaurid.... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Guanlong Guanlong Guanlong was a genus of proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid dinosaur, one of the earliest known examples of the lineage.-Description and discovery:... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Gyposaurus Gyposaurus Gyposaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the early Jurassic of South Africa and China... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Hanwulosaurus Hanwulosaurus "Hanwulosaurus" is the informal name given to an as-yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was an ankylosaur around 9 meters long, which is long for an ankylosaur. Its fossils were found in Inner Mongolia, China... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Haplocheirus Haplocheirus Haplocheirus is a genus of alvarezsauroid theropod dinosaur. It is the most basal member of its clade. It is the oldest known alvarezsauroid, predating all other members by about 63 million years. This also makes it about 15 million years older than the oldest known bird Archaeopteryx... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Harpymimus Harpymimus Harpymimus is a basal ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. Unlike later, more derived ornithomimosaurs, Harpymimus still possessed teeth, although they appear to have been restricted to the dentary of the lower jaw.-Discovery and naming:In... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Haya Haya (dinosaur) Haya is an extinct genus of basal ornithopod dinosaur known from Mongolia.-Description:Haya is known from several well-preserved specimens which collected in the Khugenetslavkant locality by the joint Mongolian Academy of Sciences from 2002 to 2007, from the Javkhlant Formation. The locality... |
Cretaceous | herbivore/omnivore | — |
Heilongjiangosaurus Heilongjiangosaurus "Heilongjiangosaurus" is the informal name given to an as-yet undescribed genus of duckbilled dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It possibly was a lambeosaurine, and may in fact be the same animal as Charonosaurus. The fossils were found in Maastrichtian-age rocks in Heilongjiang, China... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Heishansaurus Heishansaurus Heishansaurus, meaning "Heishan lizard" after the area in China where it was discovered, is the name given to a dubious genus of dinosaur. First described in 1953 as a pachycephalosaur, this dinosaur may actually be an ankylosaur. The fossils, dating from the Late Cretaceous , are fragmentary, and... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Helioceratops Helioceratops Helioceratops is a genus of neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Middle Cretaceous of China. The type species is H. brachygnathus, described in 2009 by a group of paleontologists led by Jin Liyong. Helioceratops was discovered in the Quantou Formation of China's eastern Jilin province and is known... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Hexinlusaurus Hexinlusaurus Hexinlusaurus is a genus of basal ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of China. The holotype , consists of an almost complete, articulated skull and some postcranial material, collected from a terrestrial sandstone within the Lower Shaximiao Formation at the famous dinosaur-bearing... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Heyuannia Heyuannia Heyuannia is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in China. It was the first oviraptorid found in that country; most others were found in neighbouring Mongolia.... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Hironosaurus Hironosaurus "Hironosaurus" is the informal name given to an as-yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. Found in Hirono, Fukushima, Japan, it was probably a type of hadrosaur, although no subfamily identification has been made. The fossils are quite fragmentary, and consist of teeth and a... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Hisanohamasaurus Hisanohamasaurus "Hisanohamasaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It is a nomen nudum known only from teeth that first appeared in a general-audience dinosaur book by David Lambert in 1990... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Homalocephale Homalocephale Homalocephale is a genus of dinosaur belonging to the pachycephalosaurid family, which lived during the late Cretaceous period of what is now Mongolia, 80 million years ago. The genus was described in 1974 by Osmólska & Maryañska, and consists of a single species, H... |
Cretaceous | herbivore/omnivore | — |
Hongshanosaurus Hongshanosaurus Hongshanosaurus is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of eastern Asia. Although two skulls are the only fossil material described, comparisons with close relatives suggest it was a small, bipedal herbivore with a bony beak on the end of both upper and... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Huabeisaurus Huabeisaurus Huabeisaurus was a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous . It was a sauropod which lived in what is present-day northern China. The type species, Huabeisaurus allocotus, was first described by Pang and Cheng in 2000. The dinosaur closely resembles Opisthocoelicaudia, and was a quadrupal... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Huanghetitan Huanghetitan Huanghetitan , is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period. It was a basal titanosauriform which lived in what is now Gansu, China.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Huaxiagnathus Huaxiagnathus Huaxiagnathus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China. It was a compsognathid, large for that group at about half a meter longer than Compsognathus and larger specimens of Sinosauropteryx, with the largest specimen about 1.8 meters in length.The name Huaxiagnathus is... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Huayangosaurus Huayangosaurus Huayangosaurus is a genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of China. The name derives from "Huayang", an alternate name for Sichuan , and "saurus", meaning "lizard"... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Hudiesaurus Hudiesaurus Hudiesaurus is a genus of dinosaur from China. A sauropod, it may have been related to Mamenchisaurus. Its fossil remains were found in the Kalazha Formation, which dates to the late Jurassic Period. The type species, Hudiesaurus sinojapanorum, is known from only two incomplete specimens... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Hulsanpes Hulsanpes Hulsanpes is the name given to a monotypic genus of theropods, sometimes considered a primitive bird. First described as a dromaeosaur, it lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossil remains were found in the Campanian Barun Goyot Formation at Khulsan, Ömnögovi Province, Mongolia... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Incisivosaurus Incisivosaurus Incisivosaurus is a genus of small, probably herbivorous theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period of what is now the People's Republic of China... |
Cretaceous | herbivore/omnivore | — |
Ingenia Ingenia "Ingenia" is a genus of oviraptorid theropod dinosaurs, with one known species, "Ingenia" yanshini. Fossils have been found in several Late Cretaceous-age formations of Mongolia, most prominently in the Bugin Tsav beds of the Nemegt Formation, which has also yielded the holotype of Mononykus... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Isanosaurus Isanosaurus Isanosaurus was one of the first true sauropod dinosaurs, with all four legs always on the ground. It lived 210 million years ago in Thailand. The type species is Isanosaurus attavipachi... |
Triassic | herbivore | A very early dinosaur |
Itemirus Itemirus Itemirus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Turonian age of the Late Cretaceous period of Uzbekistan.Itemirus is known from a single small damaged fossil braincase or neurocranium, in 1958 found near the village of Itemir at the Dzharakuduk escarpment in layers of the Bissekty Formation.This... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Jaxartosaurus Jaxartosaurus Jaxartosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur similar to Corythosaurus which lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in Kazakhstan and China. It had a large, helmet-like crest that it may have used for visual identification, or to vocalize with members of the same herd.The type... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Jeholosaurus Jeholosaurus Jeholosaurus is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period. It is thought to have been a small ornithopod presumably related to the hypsilophodonts, and an herbivore. Although the back teeth are like those of a plant eater, the front premaxillary teeth are sharp and pointed... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Jiangjunosaurus Jiangjunosaurus Jiangjunosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Oxfordian-age Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China. Remains including the lower jaw, some skull bones, eleven articulated neck vertebrae, and two plates are known. The type species, J. junggarensis, was described by... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Jiangshanosaurus Jiangshanosaurus Jiangshanosaurus was a titanosaurian sauropod that lived approximately 105 million years ago, during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous. Its remains were discovered in Lixian Village, Jiangshan county, in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. The type and only known species,... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Jinfengopteryx Jinfengopteryx Jinfengopteryx is a genus of maniraptoran dinosaur. It was found in the Qiaotou member of the Huajiying Formation of Hebei Province, China, and is therefore of uncertain age... |
Jurassic/Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Jingshanosaurus Jingshanosaurus Jingshanosaurus is a genus of prosauropod dinosaurs from the Early Jurassic. Its fossils, a nearly complete skeleton including the skull, were found near the town of Jingshan , Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, China, from which the name derives. First described in 1995, the type species is J.... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Jintasaurus Jintasaurus Jintasaurus is a genus of hadrosauriform dinosaur described by Hai-Lu You and Da-Qing Li in 2009. The type species is J. meniscus. Jintasaurus lived during the Early Cretaceous of what is now Gansu, northwestern China. The discovery supports the theory that hadrosaurs originated in Asia.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Jinzhousaurus Jinzhousaurus Jinzhousaurus is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur of the Early Cretaceous of China.The type species is Jinzhousaurus yangi. The generic name refers to the town Jinzhou. The specific name honours Yang Zhongjian as the founder of Chinese paleontology... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Jiutaisaurus Jiutaisaurus Jiutaisaurus is a genus of dinosaur from the Quantou Formation of China. Jiutaisaurus was a sauropod which lived during the Cretaceous. The type species, Jiutaisaurus xidiensis, was described by Wu et al. in 2006, and is based on eighteen vertebrae.-References:* Wu, W.-H., Dong, Z.-M., Sun, Y.-W.,... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Kagasaurus Kagasaurus "Kagasaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was a theropod which lived in what is now Japan. The type species was named by Hisa in 1988, but is known from only two teeth. Since "Kagasaurus" has never been formally described, it... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Kaijiangosaurus Kaijiangosaurus Kaijiangosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. It was a theropod like Megalosaurus. Its fossils, fragmentary remains of the skull, cervical vertebrae and elements of the pectoral girdle and both limbs, were found in China... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Katsuyamasaurus Katsuyamasaurus "Katsuyamasaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was a carnosaur which lived in what is now Japan. The type species was coined by Lambert in 1990, but is not formally described, making it a nomen nudum... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Kelmayisaurus Kelmayisaurus Kelmayisaurus is an extinct genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous. Its name refers to the petroleum-producing city of Karamay in the Xinjiang province of western China near where it was found.-Discovery and species:... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Kerberosaurus Kerberosaurus Kerberosaurus was a genus of hadrosaurine duckbill dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Tsagayan Formation of Blagoveschensk, Amur Region, Russia... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Khaan Khaan Khaan was an oviraptorid dinosaur that was found in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia and lived in the Late Cretaceous Period , 75 million years ago.... |
Cretaceous | carnivore/omnivore | — |
Khetranisaurus Khetranisaurus Khetranisaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Balochistan, western Pakistan . The type species is K. barkhani, described by M... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Kileskus Kileskus Kileskus is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur known from partial remains found in Middle Jurassic rocks of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Fossils recovered include the holotype maxilla, a premaxilla, a surangular, and a few bones from the hand and foot. The skull bones are similar to those of... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Kinnareemimus | Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Klamelisaurus Klamelisaurus Klamelisaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. It was a sauropod similar to Bellusaurus, of which it may actually be an adult specimen. It was found in the Gobi desert of Asia.The type species, K... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Kol Kol (dinosaur) Kol is a genus of alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. The type specimen was excavated from the Ukhaa Tolgod locality of the Djadochta Formation, dating to about 75 million years ago. It is believed to have been about twice the size of the contemporary Shuvuuia... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Koreaceratops Koreaceratops Koreaceratops is a genus of basal ceratopsian dinosaur discovered in Albian-age Lower Cretaceous rocks of South Korea. It is based on KIGAM VP 200801, an articulated series of 36 caudal vertebrae associated with partial hind limbs and ischia... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Koreanosaurus Koreanosaurus (ornithopod) Koreanosaurus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur. In May 2003 three fossils of Koreanosaurus were found in the Late Cretaceous-age Seonso Conglomerate from the southern coast of the Bi-bong Dinosaur Fossil Findspot, Boseong, Korean Peninsula: the holotype KDRC-BB2, a partial skeleton lacking the... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Koreanosaurus | Cretaceous | carnivore? | — |
Kulceratops Kulceratops Kulceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It lived in the late Albian stage. It is one of the few ceratopsians known from this period. However, the fossils from this genus have been sparse: only jaw and tooth fragments have been found so far.-Naming:Kulceratops was... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Kunmingosaurus Kunmingosaurus "Kunmingosaurus" is the name given to an as yet not formally described genus of dinosaur. It was a primitive sauropod which lived during the Early Jurassic. Its fossils were found in Yunnan Province, China in 1954, but without a formal description, it is considered a nomen nudum.The intended "type... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Kuszholia Kuszholia Kuszholia is the name given to a genus of primitive bird or bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was possibly a coelurosaur close to the ancestry of birds, although most scientists have considered it an avialan... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Lamaceratops Lamaceratops Lamaceratops,"Lama Horned Face", is a dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period. It is classified as a ceratopsian, a herbivorous "frilled" or armored dinosaur similar to, but smaller than, Bagaceratops. It had a horn on the front of its face, much like most of the later Ceratopsids.The fossils of... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Lancanjiangosaurus Lancanjiangosaurus "Lancanjiangosaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. The "type species", "L. cachuensis", was coined by Zhou in 1985, but remains a nomen nudum. It is known from the Dapuka Group of Tibet... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Lanzhousaurus Lanzhousaurus Lanzhousaurus is a genus of dinosaur. Lanzhousaurus lived in the Gansu region of what is now China during the Early Cretaceous. A partial skeleton has been recovered... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Leshansaurus Leshansaurus Leshansaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Mid to Late Jurassic Dashanpu Formation of what is now China. It was described in 2009 by a team of Chinese paleontologists. The type species is L. qianweiensis. Fossils of Leshansaurus were discovered in strata from the Shangshaximiao... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Levnesovia Levnesovia Levnesovia is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. It was related to Bactrosaurus. The type species is L. transoxiana. The genus name honours the late Russian paleontologist Lev Nesov, and the specific name refers to the ancient region Transoxiana... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Liaoceratops Liaoceratops Liaoceratops, meaning "Liao Horned Face", is a ceratopsian dinosaur believed to be an early relative of the horned ceratopsids. It lived in the early Cretaceous, some 130 million years ago. It was discovered in China by a team of American and Chinese scientists... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Liaoningosaurus Liaoningosaurus Liaoningosaurus is a very unusual ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous. The holotype IVPP V12560 , an essentially complete juvenile skeleton compressed on a slab, was collected from the Yixian Formation of Liaoxi, Yixian County, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China.The type species... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | Smallest known ankylosaur Ankylosauria Ankylosauria is a group of herbivorous dinosaurs of the order Ornithischia. It includes the great majority of dinosaurs with armor in the form of bony osteoderms. Ankylosaurs were bulky quadrupeds, with short, powerful limbs. They are first known to have appeared in the early Jurassic Period of... |
Limusaurus Limusaurus Limusaurus is a genus of toothless herbivorous theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Upper Shishugou Formation in the Junggar Basin of western China. Limusaurus is also the first definitely known ceratosaur from Eastern Asia, including China... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Linhenykus Linhenykus Linhenykus is an extinct genus of alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China. It is the most basal known member of the Parvicursorinae. The genus gets its name from Linhe, a city near the site where fossils were first found and Greek onyx, "claw"... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Linheraptor Linheraptor Linheraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur which lived in what is now China in the Late Cretaceous. It was named by Xu Xing and colleagues in 2010, and contains the species Linheraptor exquisitus. This bird-like dinosaur was less than 2 m long and was found in Inner Mongolia... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Linhevenator Linhevenator Linhevenator is a genus of short-armed troodontid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Bayan Mandahu Formation of Bayan Mandahu, Inner Mongolia, China.... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Liubangosaurus Liubangosaurus Liubangosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now southern China. Liubangosaurus is known from the holotype NHMG8152, five nearly complete and articulated middle-caudal dorsal vertebrae referred to as. It was collected from the Napai Formation in... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Luanchuanraptor Luanchuanraptor Luanchuanraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China. It is based on a partial skeleton from the Qiupa Formation in Luanchuan, Henan. A medium-sized dromaeosaurid, it is the first Asian dromaeosaurid described from outside the Gobi Desert or northeastern... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Lufengosaurus Lufengosaurus Lufengosaurus is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic period in what is now southwestern China.-Discovery and species:... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Lukousaurus Lukousaurus Lukousaurus is a taxon based on most of a small skull’s snout, displaying distinctive lachrymal horns, found in the Early Jurassic-age Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan, China and was described by Chung Chien Young in 1948.... |
Jurassic | carnivore | Possibly a crocodilian Crurotarsi The Crurotarsi are a group of archosauriformes, represented today by the crocodiles,... rather than a dinosaur |
Luoyanggia Luoyanggia Luoyanggia is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur first reported from the Ruyang Basin, Henan Province of central China in 2009. The formation dates to the Cenomanian stage of the late Cretaceous period, around 96 million years ago. The type species is L. liudianensis.... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Machairasaurus Machairasaurus Machairasaurus is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur which was found in the Bayan Mandahu Formation, China during the late Cretaceous period. It was first named by Nicholas R. Longrich, Philip J. Currie and Dong Zhi-Ming in 2010 and the type species is Machairasaurus leptonychus.... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Magnirostris Magnirostris Magnirostris, from the Latin "magnus" 'large' and "rostrum" 'beak', is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Campanian epoch in the Late Cretaceous. It was a ceratopsian which lived in Inner Mongolia in China... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Mahakala Mahakala (dinosaur) Mahakala is a genus of basal dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Ömnögov, Mongolia. It is based on a partial skeleton found in the Gobi Desert... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Maleevus Maleevus Maleevus is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur that is known only from the jawbone and part of the skull discovered in 1952 by Soviet palaeontologist Evgenii Aleksandrovich Maleev. It has been estimated that Maleevus was about 6 meters long... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Mamenchisaurus Mamenchisaurus Mamenchisaurus was a plant-eating four-legged dinosaur, known for its remarkably long neck which made up half its total length. It is known from numerous species which ranged in time from 160 to 145 million years ago, from the Oxfordian to Tithonian ages of the late Jurassic Period of... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Mandschurosaurus Mandschurosaurus Mandschurosaurus is a hadrosaur taxon based on material from the Upper Cretaceous of Belye Kruchi, Manchuria. M. amurensis is based on a poorly preserved and incomplete skeleton collected by Russian scientists in 1914 from the banks of the Amur River... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Marisaurus Marisaurus Marisaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Balochistan, western Pakistan. The type species is M. jeffi, described by M. Sadiq Malkani in 2006, and it is based on tail vertebrae, found in the Maastrichtian-age Vitakri Member of the Pab Formation... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Megacervixosaurus Megacervixosaurus "Megacervixosaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a sauropod which lived in what is now China... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Mei Mei (dinosaur) Mei is a genus of duck-sized troodontid dinosaur first unearthed by paleontologists in Liaoning, China in 2004. Mei lived during the Early Cretaceous Period. Its binomial name, Mei long means sleeping dragon... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Microceratus | Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Microdontosaurus Microdontosaurus "Microdontosaurus" is the name given to an as yet undescribed genus of sauropod dinosaur from China. It was named from fossils from the Middle Jurassic-age Dapuka Group of Xinjiang, and assigned to the Homalosaurpoidea, an outdated classification of diplodocids and titanosaurs. The intended type... |
(unknown) | herbivore | Dating dubious |
Microhadrosaurus Microhadrosaurus Microhadrosaurus is a genus of duckbill dinosaur from the Campanian or Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Yuanpu Formation of Guangdong, China... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Micropachycephalosaurus Micropachycephalosaurus Micropachycephalosaurus is a monotypic genus of ornithischian dinosaur. It lived in Shandong Province, China during the Late Cretaceous period . The incomplete skeleton of the single specimen was found on a cliff southwest of Laiyang... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Microraptor Microraptor Microraptor is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. Numerous well-preserved fossil specimens have been recovered from Liaoning, China... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Mifunesaurus Mifunesaurus Mifunesaurus is the name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous and is therefore a nomen nudum. It was a carnivorous theropod, probably a Tetanuran, which lived in what is now Japan during the Cenomanian stage of the early Late Cretaceous, around 95 million years... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Minotaurasaurus Minotaurasaurus Minotaurasaurus is a genus of ankylosaurine ankylosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It was named in 2009 by Clifford A. Miles and Clark J. Miles and the type species is Minotaurasaurus ramachandrani. The generic name is explained by the describers as meaning "man-bull reptile";... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Mongolosaurus Mongolosaurus Mongolosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous of China.In 1928 a team from the American Museum of Natural History, headed by Roy Chapman Andrews, at On Gong Gol near Hukongwulong in Inner Mongolia, in Quarry 714 discovered a sauropod tooth. In 1933 Charles W... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Monkonosaurus Monkonosaurus Monkonosaurus is the name given to a dubious genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic . It was a stegosaur which lived in what is now Tibet. The type specimen, Monkonosaurus lawulacus was formalized by Zhao in 1983, but is based only on one partial skeleton... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Monolophosaurus Monolophosaurus Monolophosaurus was a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of the Shishugou Formation in what is now Xinjiang, China. It was named for the single crest on top of its skull. The type and only known individual is estimated at... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Mononykus Mononykus Mononykus was a theropod dinosaur from late Cretaceous Mongolia with long, skinny legs. It moved about on two legs, was very nimble, and could run at high speeds, something that would have been useful in the open desert plains where it lived... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Nanningosaurus Nanningosaurus Nanningosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of the Nalong Basin, Guangxi, China. It is based on an incomplete skeleton including skull, arm, and hip remains. Some of its diagnostic characteristics include relatively few tooth positions, a gracile upper arm, and an... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Nanshiungosaurus Nanshiungosaurus Nanshiungosaurus is a genus of therizinosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous of China.Two species have been named in the genus: the type species Nanshiungosaurus brevispinus and Nanshiungosaurus bohlini.-Discovery and naming:... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Nanyangosaurus Nanyangosaurus Nanyangosaurus is a genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was an iguanodont which lived in the area of present-day China.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Neimongosaurus Neimongosaurus Neimongosaurus is a genus of herbivorous therizinosaur theropod dinosaur known from the Upper Cretaceous of Nei Mongol, China.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Nemegtomaia Nemegtomaia Nemegtomaia is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. The type species, Nemegtomaia barsboldi, was described by Lü, Tomida, Azuma, Dong, and Lee in 2004... |
Cretaceous | carnivore/omnivore | — |
Nemegtosaurus Nemegtosaurus Nemegtosaurus was a sauropod dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It was named after the Nemegt Basin in the Gobi Desert, where the remains — a single skull — were found... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Ngexisaurus Ngexisaurus "Ngexisaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. It was a coelurosaur which lived in what is now China. The type species, "Ngexisaurus dapukaensis", was coined by Zhao in 1983... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Nipponosaurus Nipponosaurus Nipponosaurus is a lambeosaurine hadrosaurid from Asia.The holotype was discovered in November 1934 during the construction of a hospital for the Kawakami colliery of the Mitsui Mining Company on Karafuto Prefecture , and additional material belonging to the specimen was recovered... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Nomingia Nomingia Nomingia is a genus of oviraptorid theropod dinosaur hailing from the Late Cretaceous Bugin Tsav Beds of Mongolia.-Discovery and naming:... |
Cretaceous | carnivore/omnivore | — |
Nurosaurus Nurosaurus "Nurosaurus" Nur - o - Saw - rus, meaning "Nur lizard") is the informal name for a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China. It is known from a partial skeleton that has often been seen in traveling exhibitions under various misspellings. "Nurosaurus" had a length... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Olorotitan Olorotitan Olorotitan was a genus of lambeosaurine duckbilled dinosaur from the middle or latest Maastrichtian-age Late Cretaceous Tsagayan Formation beds located in Kundur, Amur Region, Far Eastern Russia. The remains, consisting of a nearly complete skeleton, were described by Pascal Godefroit et al. in... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Omeisaurus Omeisaurus Omeisaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period of what is now China. Its name comes from Mount Emei, where it was discovered in the lower Shaximiao Formation of Sichuan Province.Like other sauropods, Omeisaurus was herbivorous and large... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Opisthocoelicaudia Opisthocoelicaudia Opisthocoelicaudia was 12-metre-long sauropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous Period discovered in Mongolia in 1965 by Polish and Mongolian scientists in what is now the Gobi Desert... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Oshanosaurus Oshanosaurus "Oshanosaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic period of Yunnan, China. Its fossils were found in the Lower Lufeng Series. The intended "type species", "Oshanosaurus youngi", was coined by Zhao in 1985... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Otogosaurus Otogosaurus Otogosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur. The most notable species in this genus is Otogosaurus sarulai. This species was first described by Chinese scientist Zhao in 2004. The species is named after Otog, the location of its discovery, and the Sarula, who are the indigenous peoples who live in... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Oviraptor Oviraptor Oviraptor is a genus of small Mongolian theropod dinosaur, first discovered by the paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, and first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn, in 1924... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Pakisaurus Pakisaurus Pakisaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Balochistan, western Pakistan. The type species is P. balochistani, described by M. Sadiq Malkani in 2006, and it is based on four tail vertebrae, found in the Maastrichtian-age Vitakri Member of the Pab Formation. Three... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Parvicursor Parvicursor Parvicursor is a genus of tiny maniraptoran dinosaur with long slender legs for fast running. At only about 39 cm from snout to end of tail, and 162 grams in weight, it is one of the smallest non-avian dinosaurs known from an adult specimen.Like other members of the family Alvarezsauridae,... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Pedopenna Pedopenna Pedopenna is a genus of small, feathered, maniraptoran dinosaur from the Daohugou Beds in China. It is possibly older than Archaeopteryx, though the age of the Daohugou Beds where it was found is debated... |
Jurassic | (unknown) | — |
Peishansaurus Peishansaurus Peishansaurus was a genus of plant-eating dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period , roughly 97.5-65 million years ago.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Penelopognathus Penelopognathus Penelopognathus is a genus of dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous. It was an iguanodont ancestral to hadrosaurids. Fossils have been found in the Bayin-Gobi Formation in what is now Mongolia... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Phaedrolosaurus Phaedrolosaurus Phaedrolosaurus was a genus of theropod dinosaur, based on a single tooth possibly from the Valanginian-Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Lianmugin Formation of Wuerho, Xinjiang, China. This tooth, IVPP V 4024-1, was described by Dong Zhiming as like those of Deinonychus, albeit thicker, shorter, and... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Phuwiangosaurus Phuwiangosaurus Phuwiangosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was a titanosaur which lived in Thailand. The type species, P. sirindhornae, was described by Martin, Buffetaut, and Suteethorn in 1994, it was named to honour Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand on her... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Pinacosaurus Pinacosaurus Pinacosaurus is a genus of medium-sized ankylosaur dinosaurs that lived from the late Santonian to the late Campanian stages of the late Cretaceous Period , in Mongolia and China... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Platyceratops Platyceratops Platyceratops is a dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, during the Campanian Age, about 75-72 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in Mongolia. Its skull is larger than Bagaceratops; it has been referred to Bagaceratopidae or the Neoceratopsia... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Prenocephale Prenocephale Prenocephale was a small pachycephalosaurid dinosaur genus from the Late Cretaceous and was similar in many ways to its close relative, Homalocephale, which may simply represent Prenocephale juveniles. Adult Prenocephale probably weighed around and measured around long... |
Cretaceous | herbivore/omnivore | — |
Probactrosaurus Probactrosaurus Probactrosaurus is an early herbivorous hadrosauroid iguanodont dinosaur. It lived in China during the Early Cretaceous period.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Prodeinodon Prodeinodon Prodeinodon is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China and Mongolia. Three species have been identified, all three known only from tooth fragments showing no diagnostic features, making them difficult to classify, though they may belong to a carnosaur.The type... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | Dubious, see article |
Protarchaeopteryx Protarchaeopteryx Protarchaeopteryx is a genus of turkey-sized feathered theropod dinosaur from China. Known from the Jianshangou bed of the Yixian Formation, it lived during the early Aptian age of the Early Cretaceous, approximately 124.6 million years ago... |
Cretaceous | herbivore/omnivore | — |
Protoceratops Protoceratops Protoceratops is a genus of sheep-sized herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur, from the Upper Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It was a member of the Protoceratopsidae, a group of early horned dinosaurs... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Protognathosaurus Protognathosaurus Protognathosaurus is a genus of dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. It was a sauropod found in what is present-day China. The type species, P. oxyodon, was originally described by Zhang , and was renamed by George Olshevsky in 1991... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Psittacosaurus Psittacosaurus Psittacosaurus is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Asia, about 130 to 100 million years ago. It is notable for being the most species-rich dinosaur genus... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Pukyongosaurus Pukyongosaurus Pukyongosaurus is a genus of titanosauriform dinosaur that lived in Korea during the Early Cretaceous period. It was closely related to Euhelopus, and is known from a series of vertebrae in the neck and back.-References:... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Qiaowanlong Qiaowanlong Qiaowanlong is a genus of sauropod dinosaur. Fossils belonging to the genus were found in 2007 from the Yujinzi Basin of Gansu, China, and were described in 2009 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The remains come from a geological formation called the Xinminpu Group, dating to the Early... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Qingxiusaurus Qingxiusaurus Qingxiusaurus is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Guanxi, China. The type species, described by Mo et al. in 2008, is Q. youjiangensis. Like other sauropods, Qingxiusaurus would have been a large quadrupedal herbivore.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Qinlingosaurus Qinlingosaurus Qinlingosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from Cretaceous Asia. The type species, Q. luonanensis, was named by Xue, Zhang and Bi in 1996 on the strength of an ilium, ischium and three vertebrae. From such little fossil evidence, it is classified as Sauropoda incertae sedis... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Qiupalong Qiupalong Qiupalong is a genus of ornithomimid dinosaur. Qiupalong lived during the late Cretaceous period in what is now Henan Province, China. It is known from a single partial skeleton recovered from the Qiupa Formation... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Quaesitosaurus Quaesitosaurus Quaesitosaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod found by Kurzanov and Bannikov in 1983. The type species is Quaesitosaurus orientalis. It lived from 85 to 70 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Raptorex Raptorex Raptorex is a dubious genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur. Its fossil remains consist of a single juvenile specimen probably uncovered in Mongolia, or possibly northeastern China. The type species is R. kriegsteini, described in 2009 by Sereno and colleagues. The genus name is derived from Latin ,... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Ratchasimasaurus Ratchasimasaurus Ratchasimasaurus is a genus of non-hadrosaurid iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from Early Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation of Nakhon Ratchasima Province in northeastern Thailand. One autapomorphy of Ratchasimasaurus is its elongated and flat ramus of the dentary... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Rinchenia Rinchenia Rinchenia is a genus of Mongolian oviraptorid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period. The type species, Rinchenia mongoliensis, was originally classified as a species within the genus Oviraptor , but a re-examination by Barsbold in 1997 found differences significant enough to warrant a separate... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Ruyangosaurus Ruyangosaurus Ruyangosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur recovered from the Late Cretaceous Mangchuan Formation of China. The type species is R. giganteus, described in 2009 by a group of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Henan Geological Museum.Along with Huanghetitan and Daxiatitan,... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Sahaliyania Sahaliyania Sahaliyania is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Heilongjiang, China... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Saichania Saichania Saichania is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period. It was found in the Barun Goyot Formation at Khulsan in the Nemegt Basin, southern Mongolia. It lived during the Campanian. The type species is Saichania chulsanensis.Saichania was described by Teresa Maryańska in 1977,... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Sanchusaurus Sanchusaurus "Sanchusaurus" is an informal name for a ornithomimid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Asia. It is only known by a partial tail vertebra, found in Nakasato, Japan. It may be synonymous with Gallimimus; Dong Zhiming and coauthors assigned to Gallimimus sp. in 1990... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | May be synonymous with Gallimimus Gallimimus Gallimimus is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. With individuals as long as , it was one of the largest ornithomimosaurs... . |
Sangonghesaurus Sangonghesaurus "Sangonghesaurus" is the informal name given to a genus of dinosaur. It was an ankylosaur, a quadrupedal, armoured herbivore. "Sangonghesaurus" was found in Xinjiang, China, in either Jurassic or Late Cretaceous rocks. The name was coined by Zhao in 1983... |
Jurassic/Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Sanpasaurus Sanpasaurus Sanpasaurus is the name given to the mixed-up fossils of sauropod and iguanodontian dinosaurs from the Jurassic of Sichuan, China. The type species, S. yaoi, was described by Chung Chien Young, in 1944, who recognized that the remains arrived to the lab in a jumbled state, so that their... |
Jurassic | herbivore | Dubious, see article |
Saurolophus Saurolophus Saurolophus is a genus of large hadrosaurine duckbill that lived about 69.5-68.5 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous of North America and Asia; it is one of the few genera of dinosaurs known from multiple continents. It is distinguished by a spike-like crest which projects up and back... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Sauroplites Sauroplites Sauroplites is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. The type species, Sauroplites scutiger, was formally described by Bohlin in 1953, but is often considered a nomen dubium because it is based on fragmentary material. Sauroplites lived in what is now Gansu, China, during the... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Saurornithoides Saurornithoides Saurornithoides is a genus of troodontid maniraptoran dinosaur, living during the Late Cretaceous period. These creatures were predators, which could run fast on their hind legs and had excellent sight and hearing... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | May be a junor synonym of Troodon Troodon Troodon is a genus of relatively small, bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period . Discovered in 1855, it was among the first dinosaurs found in North America... . |
Scansoriopteryx Scansoriopteryx Scansoriopteryx is a genus of avialan dinosaur. Described from only a single juvenile fossil specimen found in Liaoning, China, Scansoriopteryx is a sparrow-sized animal that shows adaptations in the foot indicating an arboreal lifestyle. It possessed an unusual, elongated third finger... |
Jurassic/Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Segnosaurus Segnosaurus Segnosaurus is a genus of herbivorous theropod dinosaur belonging to the Therizinosauridae from the Cretaceous of Mongolia.-Discovery and naming:... |
Cretaceous | herbivore/omnivore | — |
Shamosaurus Shamosaurus Shamosaurus is an extinct genus of basal ankylosaurid ankylosaur from Early Cretaceous deposits of Höövör, Mongolia. Shamosaurus is known from the holotype PIN N 3779/2 complete skull and jaw and the paratypes include partial skeleton remains and an armor. It was collected from the... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Shanag Shanag Shanag is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of Mongolia.The type species of Shanag is Shanag ashile. It was named and described by Alan Turner, Sunny Hai-Ching Hwang and Mark Norell in 2007. The generic name refers to the black-hatted dancers in the... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Shantungosaurus Shantungosaurus Shantungosaurus, meaning "Shandong Lizard", is a genus of saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaurs found in the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Formation of the Shandong Peninsula in China.-Description:... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Shanweiniao Shanweiniao Shanweiniao is an extinct genus of long-beaked enantiornithine bird from Early Cretaceous China. One species is known, Shanweiniao cooperorum. There is one known fossil, a slab and counterslab. The fossil is in the collection of the Dalian Natural History Museum, and has accession number DNHM... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Shanxia Shanxia Shanxia is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur that lived during the upper Cretaceous Period. Its fossils were recovered and named after the Shanxi Province of China, and it is known only from scrappy remains found in river deposits... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Shanyangosaurus Shanyangosaurus Shanyangosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur found in Shaanxi, China, and known only from a few fragmentary leg bones. The bones are reportedly hollow; this, along with other features of the femur and known foot bones, suggest it is a member of the coelurosauria, but a specific family cannot be... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Shaochilong Shaochilong Shaochilong is a genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur from the mid Cretaceous Ulansuhai Formation of China . The type species, S... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Shenzhousaurus Shenzhousaurus Shenzhousaurus is a genus of basal ornithomimosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China.The holotype was collected from near the bottom of the Yixian Formation at the Sihetun fossil site, Beipiao, western Liaoning Province... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Shidaisaurus Shidaisaurus Shidaisaurus is a genus of basal tetanuran theropod dinosaur. Its fossil was found in early Middle Jurassic-age rocks of the Upper Lufeng Formation in Yunnan, China. It is known from a partial skeleton, holotype DML-LCA 9701-IV, found at the bottom of an assemblage of nine dinosaur individuals,... |
Jurassic | (unknown) | — |
Shixinggia Shixinggia Shixinggia is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Shixing County, Guangdong, China. While no skull was recovered, the specimen is known from a fair amount of post-cranial material that shows it was a fairly derived oviraptorosaur , of superfamily Caenagnathoidea... |
Cretaceous | carnivore/omnivore | — |
Shuangmiaosaurus Shuangmiaosaurus Shuangmiaosaurus is a genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur which lived during the late Albian age of the Early Cretaceous Period, about 100 million years ago. It was an iguanodont euornithopod which lived in China.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Shunosaurus Shunosaurus Shunosaurus, meaning "Shu Lizard", is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from Middle Jurassic beds in Sichuan Province in China, 170 million years ago... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Shuvuuia Shuvuuia Shuvuuia is a genus of bird-like theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of Mongolia. It is a member of the family Alvarezsauridae, small coelurosaurian dinosaurs which are characterized by short but powerful forelimbs specialized for digging. The type species is Shuvuuia deserti, or... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Siamodon Siamodon Siamodon is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from Early Cretaceous deposits of northeastern Thailand. Siamodon is known from the holotype PRC-4, a well-preserved left maxilla and from the referred materials PRC-5, an isolated maxillary tooth and PRC-6, a braincase... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Siamosaurus Siamosaurus Siamosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from Early Cretaceous Thailand. The size of the animal is unknown, but it may have reached a length of about 9.1 meters . The type species, Siamosaurus suteethorni, was formally described by Buffetaut and Ingavat in 1986... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Siamotyrannus Siamotyrannus Siamotyrannus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous . It is known from a partial skeleton which includes part of the pelvis, the sacrum, and a number of vertebrae. The fossils were found in 1993 by Somchai Traimwichanon in the Sao Khua Formation of northeastern Thailand... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Siluosaurus Siluosaurus Siluosaurus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Barremian-Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Xinminbao Group of Gansu, China. It is based on IVPP V.11117 , two teeth... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Similicaudipteryx Similicaudipteryx Similicaudipteryx, meaning "similar to Caudipteryx" , is a genus of theropod dinosaur of the family Caudipteridae. Its fossil remains were recovered from the Jiufotang and Yixian Formations of northeastern China, dating to the early Cretaceous Period between 124 and 120 million years ago... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Sinocalliopteryx Sinocalliopteryx Sinocalliopteryx is a genus of compsognathid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Sinoceratops Sinoceratops Sinoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur described by Xu Xing and colleagues in 2010. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now China. The type species is S. zhuchengensis.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Sinocoelurus Sinocoelurus Sinocoelurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the ?Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Kyangyan Series of Sichuan, China. It is an obscure tooth taxon.-History:Famous Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian Sinocoelurus (meaning "Chinese hollow tail", in reference to location and to relate the new... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Sinopliosaurus Sinopliosaurus (dinosaur) "Sinopliosaurus" is a spinosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of southern China, known only from teeth. It includes a single species, "S." fusuiensis, that was first assigned to the plesiosaur Sinopliosaurus. Because this species is not a plesiosaur and therefore is not within the... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Sinornithoides Sinornithoides Sinornithoides is a genus of troodontid theropod dinosaur. It lived during the Early Cretaceous . It measured approximately 1 meter long... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Sinornithomimus Sinornithomimus Sinornithomimus is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur found in 1997, in the early Late Cretaceous strata of the Ulansuhai Formation located at Alshanzuo Banner, Nei Mongol Autonomous Region, Northern China.-Discovery and naming:... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Sinornithosaurus Sinornithosaurus Sinornithosaurus is a genus of feathered dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period of the Yixian Formation in what is now China. It was the fifth non–avian feathered dinosaur genus discovered by 1999... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Sinosauropteryx Sinosauropteryx Sinosauropteryx was the first genus of dinosaur outside of Avialae to be found with evidence of feathers. They were covered with "furry" coats of very simple filament-like feathers... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Sinosaurus Sinosaurus Sinosaurus was a tetanuran theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Triassic or Early Jurassic Period. Its fossils were found in the Lufeng Formation, in Yunnan Province, China. It was a bipedal carnivore... |
Triassic/Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Sinovenator Sinovenator Sinovenator is a genus of troodontid dinosaur from China. It is from the early Cretaceous Period. Two fossils were originally found in the Lujiatun Beds of the lower Yixian Formation in China, about 125 million years ago during the Aptian age.The type species, Sinovenator changii, was... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Sinraptor Sinraptor Sinraptor is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. The name Sinraptor comes from the Latin prefix "Sino", meaning Chinese, and "Raptor" meaning thief. The specific name dongi honours Dong Zhiming... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Sinusonasus Sinusonasus Sinusonasus is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period, recovered from the Yixian Formation. This dinosaur lived in what is now the Liaoning Province of China. Sinusonasus was a theropod, specifically a troodontid dinosaur... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Sinotyrannus Sinotyrannus Sinotyrannus is a genus of large basal proceratosaurid dinosaur, a relative of tyrannosaurids which flourished in North America and Asia during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods. Sinotyrannus is known from a single incomplete fossil specimen including a partial skull, from the Early... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Sonidosaurus Sonidosaurus Sonidosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a titanosaur which lived in what is now China. The type species, Sonidosaurus saihangaobiensis, was described by Xu, Zhang, Tan, Zhao, and Tan in 2006. It was a small titanosaur, about 9 meters long... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
SPS 100/44 SPS 100/44 SPS 100/44 is the accession number given to an unnamed genus of troodontid dinosaur discovered in Mongolia. In the scientific literature it is referred to as the "EK troodontid", after the Early Cretaceous sediments in which it was found.-Discovery:... |
Cretaceous | carnivore/omnivore | — |
Stegosaurides Stegosaurides Stegosaurides is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in the Xinminbao Formation near Heishan in Gansu Province in China. These fossils consist of fragmentary material, including spinal elements... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Sugiyamasaurus Sugiyamasaurus "Sugiyamasaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur known only from a few spatulate teeth. It was a sauropod, possibly a camarasaurid, which lived in Japan during the Late Cretaceous... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Sulaimanisaurus Sulaimanisaurus Sulaimanisaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Balochistan, western Pakistan . The type species is S. gingerichi, described by M... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Suzhousaurus Suzhousaurus Suzhousaurus is a genus of herbivorous therizinosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Xinminpu Group of the Yujingzi Basin, Gansu, China.-Discovery and naming:... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Szechuanoraptor Szechuanoraptor "Szechuanoraptor" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic . It was a theropod which lived in what is now China... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Szechuanosaurus Szechuanosaurus Szechuanosaurus is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. This dinosaur lived in the Asia in the Oxfordian and early Kimmeridgian . It is based on four undiagnostic teeth from the Shangshaximiao Formation.-Discovery and species:Three species have been assigned to this genus... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Talarurus Talarurus Talarurus is a genus of hippopotamus-sized ankylosaurid dinosaur with heavy armour and a club tail. It was named by Evgeny Maleev in 1952.-Age and location:... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Tangvayosaurus Tangvayosaurus Tangvayosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Aptian-Albian age Lower Cretaceous Grès Supérior Formation of Savannakhet, Laos... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Tanius Tanius Tanius is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur. It lived in the Late Cretaceous of the People's Republic of China.The type species, named and described in 1929 by Carl Wiman, is Tanius sinensis. The generic name honours the Chinese paleontologist Tan Xichou... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Tarbosaurus Tarbosaurus Tarbosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that flourished in Asia about 70 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous Period. Fossils have been recovered in Mongolia, with more fragmentary remains found further afield in parts of China. Although many species have been... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Tarchia Tarchia Tarchia is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia. It is currently the geologically youngest known of all the Asian ankylosaurid dinosaurs and is represented by five or more specimens, including two complete skulls and one nearly complete postcranial skeleton... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Tatisaurus Tatisaurus Tatisaurus is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur from the Early Jurassic from the Lower Lufeng Formation in Yunnan Province in China. Little is known as the remains are fragmentary.-Discovery and species:... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Therizinosaurus Therizinosaurus Therizinosaurus is a genus of very large theropod dinosaur. Therizinosaurus lived in the late Cretaceous Period , and was one of the last and largest representatives of its unique group, the Therizinosauria... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | Had huge claws |
Tianchisaurus Tianchisaurus Tianchisaurus is a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur from the middle Jurassic Period of China. If it actually belongs to the family Ankylosauridae as proposed by Dong Zhiming, it would be the earliest member of that family... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Tianyulong Tianyulong Tianyulong is a genus of heterodontosaurid ornithischian dinosaur. The only species is T. confuciusi, whose remains were discovered in Jianchang County, Western Liaoning Province, China... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Tianyuraptor Tianyuraptor Tianyuraptor is a genus of short-armed dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous, about 122 million years ago. Its remains have been found in western Liaoning, China. It was similar to other dromaeosaurids found in Liaoning, with the exception of being somewhat more primitive... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Tianzhenosaurus Tianzhenosaurus Tianzhenosaurus is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur discovered in Tianzhen County, at Kangdailiang near Zhaojiagou Village, in Shanxi Province, China, in the Late Cretaceous Huiquanpu Formation. Thus far, a virtually complete skull and postcranial skeleton have been assigned to the genus, which is... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Tienshanosaurus Tienshanosaurus Tienshanosaurus is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It was a sauropod which lived in what is now China.... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Tochisaurus Tochisaurus Tochisaurus is a genus of small theropod dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous Period. Its fossils, consisting solely of the metatarsus, were found in Mongolia. The type species is T. nemegtensis, formalized by Kurzanov and Osmólska in 1991... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | — |
Tonganosaurus Tonganosaurus Tonganosaurus is a genus of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur, similar to Omeisaurus. It is known from one specimen consisting of twenty vertebrae, a front limb and pectoral girdle, and a complete hind limb with partial hip. It lived during the early Jurassic period in what is now China... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Tonouchisaurus Tonouchisaurus "Tonouchisaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period. It was a theropod which lived in what is now Mongolia. The suggested "type species", "Tonouchisaurus mongoliensis", was coined by Barsbold in 1994. It was notably small: less... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Troodon Troodon Troodon is a genus of relatively small, bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period . Discovered in 1855, it was among the first dinosaurs found in North America... |
Cretaceous | omnivore | Known from several teeth, that were found in Siberia Siberia Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th... . |
Tsaagan Tsaagan Tsaagan is a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Djadokhta Formation of the late Cretaceous of Mongolia.... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Tsagantegia Tsagantegia Tsagantegia is a genus of medium-sized ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Mongolia, during the Cenomanian stage.The holotype specimen , a complete skull, was recovered from the Bayan Shireh Formation , at the Tsagan-Teg locality, Dzun-Bayan, in the southeastern Gobi Desert, Mongolia... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Tsintaosaurus Tsintaosaurus Tsintaosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from China. It was about long, tall and weighed 3 tons. The type species is T. spinorhinus, first described by C. C... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Tsuchikurasaurus Tsuchikurasaurus "Tsuchikurasaurus" is the informal name given to an undescribed specimen of theropod dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Japan. The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing lists it as a possible neotheropod.-External links:*... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Tugulusaurus Tugulusaurus Tugulusaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from early Cretaceous Tugulu Group in the Urhe area of the People's Republic of China.From 1964 dinosaur fossils were excavated in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Tuojiangosaurus Tuojiangosaurus Tuojiangosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period, recovered from the Upper Shaximiao Formation of what is now Sichuan Province in China. Physically similar to the North American Stegosaurus, Tuojiangosaurus is the best understood of the Chinese stegosaurids... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Turanoceratops Turanoceratops Turanoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur, possibly a ceratopsid. Its fossil remains were recovered from the Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan, dating to the late Cretaceous Period about 90 million years ago... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | First ceratopsid Ceratopsidae Ceratopsidae is a speciose group of marginocephalian dinosaurs including Triceratops and Styracosaurus... found outside North America (though ceratopsia Ceratopsia Ceratopsia or Ceratopia is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs which thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic. The earliest known ceratopsian, Yinlong downsi, lived between 161.2 and 155.7... ns are known from elsewhere) |
Tylocephale Tylocephale Tylocephale is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. It was a herbivorous dinosaur estimated to have been about 1.4 metres in length... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Udanoceratops Udanoceratops Udanoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in the late Santonian or early Campanian faunal stages... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Ultrasaurus Ultrasaurus Ultrasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur discovered by Haang Mook Kim in South Korea. However, the name was first used unofficially in 1979 by Jim Jensen to describe a set of giant dinosaur bones he discovered in the United States... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | Dubious, see article |
Urbacodon Urbacodon Urbacodon is a genus of troodontid dinosaur, a type of small carnivore. It lived in Uzbekistan during the early Late Cretaceous Period, about 95 million years ago. The first part of the name Urbacodon is an acronym, honouring the Uzbek, Russian, British, American and Canadian scientists who... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Velociraptor Velociraptor Velociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past. The type species is V. mongoliensis; fossils... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | Feathered |
Vitakridrinda Vitakridrinda Vitakridrinda is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Balochistan, western Pakistan. The type species is V. sulaimani. The discovery was made near Vitariki by a team of palaeontologists from the Geological Survey of Pakistan,in rocks from the Maastrichtian-age... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Wakinosaurus Wakinosaurus Wakinosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Sengoku Formation of Kyushu, Japan. The genus is a tooth taxon, based solely on a tooth.... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Wannanosaurus Wannanosaurus Wannanosaurus is a genus of basal pachycephalosaurian dinosaur from the Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Xiaoyan Formation, about 80 million years ago in what is now Anhui, China... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Wuerhosaurus Wuerhosaurus Wuerhosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of China. As such, it was one of the last genera of stegosaurians known to have existed, since most others lived in the late Jurassic.-Discovery and species:... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | Stegosaurid that lived during the Cretaceous |
Wulagasaurus Wulagasaurus Wulagasaurus is a genus of hadrosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Heilongjiang, China. Its remains were found in a bonebed in the latest Maastrichtian-age Yuliangze Formation, dated to 65.5 million years ago... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Xianshanosaurus Xianshanosaurus Xianshanosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of what is now China. It was described in 2009 by a team of Chinese paleontologists. The type species is X. shijiagouensis.... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Xiaosaurus Xiaosaurus Xiaosaurus , is a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from the middle Jurassic, approximately 169 to 163 mya. Xiaosaurus lived in what is now the Sichuan Basin of China.... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Xiaotingia Xiaotingia Xiaotingia is a genus of bird-like theropod dinosaur from early Late Jurassic deposits of western Liaoning, China, containing a single species, Xiaotingia zhengi.-Discovery:... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Xinjiangovenator Xinjiangovenator Xinjiangovenator is a genus of coelurosaurian dinosaur of the Valanginian to Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous period. Its remains were found in the Lianmuqin Formation of Wuerho, Xinjiang, China, and were first described by Dong Zhiming... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Xiongguanlong Xiongguanlong Xiongguanlong is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous of what is now China. The type species is X. baimoensis, described online in 2009 by a group of researchers from China and the United States, and formally published in January 2010. The genus name refers to the... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Xixianykus Xixianykus Xixianykus is a genus of alvarezsauroid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of China. It was discovered in Xixia County in Henan, China... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Xixiasaurus Xixiasaurus Xixiasaurus is a genus of troodontid dinosaur described in 2010. The type species is X. henanensis. Fossils of Xixiasaurus were discovered in central China, in the Majiacun Formation of Henan, and are believed to have been from the Late Cretaceous... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Xixiposaurus Xixiposaurus Xixiposaurus is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur which existed in what is now Lower Lufeng Formation, China during the lower Jurassic period. It was first named by Sekiya Toru in 2010 and the type species is Xixiposaurus suni.... |
Jurassic | omnivore | — |
Xuanhanosaurus Xuanhanosaurus Xuanhanosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived during the Jurassic of China.The type species Xuanhanosaurus qilixiaensis was named by Dong Zhiming in 1984. The generic name refers to Xuanhan County in Sichuan. The specific name is derived from the town of Qilixia... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Xuanhuaceratops | Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Xuwulong Xuwulong Xuwulong is a genus of iguanodontoid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period. It is a basal hadrosauriform which lived during the early Cretaceous period in what is now Yujingzi Basin in the Jiuquan area, Gansu Province of northwestern China... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Yamaceratops Yamaceratops Yamaceratops is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a primitive ceratopsian which lived in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. Initially, the rocks it was found in were thought to be from the Early Cretaceous, but the age was reevaluted in 2009.The type species, Yamaceratops... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Yandangornis Yandangornis Yandangornis is a genus of primitive bird from the Late Cretaceous. It lived 85 million years ago in what is now China. The type species, Y. longicaudus, was formally described by Cai and Zhou in 1999. The holotype specimen is in the collection of the Zhejiang Museum of natural History, with... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Yandusaurus Yandusaurus Yandusaurus is a genus of herbivorous basal euornithopod dinosaur from the Bathonian age of China.-Discovery and naming:... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Yangchuanosaurus Yangchuanosaurus Yangchuanosaurus was a theropod dinosaur that lived in China during the late Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic, and was similar in size and appearance to its North American contemporary, Allosaurus... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
Yibinosaurus Yibinosaurus "Yibinosaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. It was a sauropod which lived in what is now Sichuan, China. The suggested "type species", "Yibinosaurus zhoui", has not been formally described yet, but the formal publication... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Yimenosaurus Yimenosaurus Yimenosaurus is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. Fossils from several individuals were recovered from Yimen, China, and the type species Y. youngi was named by Bai, Yang & Wang in 1990. Reconstructions are based on mostly complete skeletons, missing only parts of the... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Yingshanosaurus Yingshanosaurus "Yingshanosaurus" is the informal name given to a genus of quadrupedal dinosaur from the Late Jurassic, around 150 million years ago. It was a stegosaurian which lived in what is now China. The suggested "type species", coined by Zhou in 1984, is "Yingshanosaurus jichuanensis", but this is... |
Jurassic | herbivore | The only fossil specimen of this species has apparently been lost. |
Yinlong Yinlong Yinlong is a genus of basal ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period of central Asia. It was a small, primarily bipedal herbivore, approximately 1.2 meters long... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Yixianosaurus Yixianosaurus Yixianosaurus is a maniraptoran theropod dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous of China.The type species, Yixianosaurus longimanus, was formally named and described by Xu Xing and Wang Xiaolin in 2003. Its partial skeleton was discovered in 2001, in Liaoning at Wangjiagou in northeastern China.... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | — |
Yizhousaurus Yizhousaurus "Yizhousaurus" is an informally named genus of basal sauropod dinosaur which existed in what is now Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan Province of southern China during the lower Jurassic period. Identified from a nearly complete and exquisitely preserved skeleton, it is the most complete basal... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Yuanmousaurus Yuanmousaurus Yuanmousaurus was a sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic period of China. It is known from incomplete remains, but probably reached about 17 meters in length... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Yunnanosaurus Yunnanosaurus Yunnanosaurus is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the Early to Middle Jurassic Period, a position in time that makes it one of the last prosauropods. It is closely related to Lufengosaurus... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Yunxiansaurus Yunxiansaurus "Yunxiansaurus" is the informal name given to an as-yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a sauropod which lived in what is now China. The suggested "type species", "Yunxiansaurus hubei", was coined by Chinese paleontologist Zhou in 2005. The fossils of "Yunxiansaurus"... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Zanabazar Zanabazar (dinosaur) Zanabazar is a genus of troodontid dinosaur, which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in Mongolia.Fossils of this theropod have been found in the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. Originally classified as a new species of the genus Saurornithoides by Rinchen Barsbold in 1974, based on a small... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Zhejiangosaurus Zhejiangosaurus Zhejiangosaurus is an extinct genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Zhejiang, eastern China... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Zhongornis Zhongornis Zhongornis is a genus of primitive birds that lived during the Early Cretaceous. It was found in rocks of the Yixian Formation in Lingyuan City , and described by Gao et al. in 2008.... |
Cretaceous | (unknown) | Seems intermediary between Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx , sometimes referred to by its German name Urvogel , is a genus of theropod dinosaur that is closely related to birds. The name derives from the Ancient Greek meaning "ancient", and , meaning "feather" or "wing"... and birds |
Zhongyuansaurus Zhongyuansaurus Zhongyuansaurus is an extinct genus of ankylosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Ruyang, Henan, China. It is known from remains including skull, arm, pelvic, and tail bones. It is distinguished by characteristics such as a flat roof to the skull, a straight ischium, and the... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Zhuchengceratops Zhuchengceratops Zhuchengceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a derived leptoceratopsid ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Kugou, Zhucheng County, China. It is known from a partial articulated skeleton including vertebrae, ribs, teeth, and parts of... |
Cretaceous | herbivore | — |
Zhuchengtyrannus Zhuchengtyrannus Zhuchengtyrannus is an extinct genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period. It is a tyrannosaurine tyrannosaurid which lived during the late Cretaceous period in what is now Zhucheng, Shandong Province of China... |
Cretaceous | carnivore | — |
Zigongosaurus Zigongosaurus Zigongosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic-Late Jurassic-age Shaximiao Formation of Zigong, Sichuan, China... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Zizhongosaurus Zizhongosaurus Zizhongosaurus is a genus of basal herbivorous sauropod dinosaur which lived in the Early Jurassic Period of China. It was a large-bodied herbivore characterized by a long neck.... |
Jurassic | herbivore | — |
Zuolong Zuolong Zuolong is a genus of coelurosaur dinosaur which existed in what is now Wucaiwan, Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China during the Late Jurassic period . The holotype fossil of Zuolong, IVPP V15912, a partial skeleton with skull, was discovered in 2001 in China, in the upper part of the... |
Jurassic | carnivore | — |
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Timeline
This is a timeline of selected dinosaurs from the list above. Time is measured in Ma, megaannum, along the x-axis.Criteria for inclusion
- The creature must appear on the List of dinosaurs.
- Fossils of the creature must have been found in AsiaAsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
. - This list is a complement to :Category:Dinosaurs of Asia.