Monkonosaurus
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| Upper Jurassic ( Kimmeridgian ) | ||||||||||||
| 157.3 to 152.1 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Monkonosaurus | ||||||||||||
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Monkonosaurus is a poorly known genus of the bird's pelvis dinosaur from the stegosauria group . It was the firstdinosaur discoveredin Tibet .
The finds are limited to two vertebrae , parts of the pelvis and three bone plates. These bone plates, typical of all stegosaurs, were large and thin and resemble those of Stegosaurus . Nothing is known about the arrangement of the plates. Based on the findings, it was calculated that Monkonosaurus reached a length of around 5 meters. It was a rather small to medium-sized stegosaur.
The fossils were found in the Lura Formation in Tibet and named after the Monko region. They are dated to the Upper Jurassic . The only species and therefore type species is Monkonosaurus lawulacus .
literature
- David B. Weishampel , Peter Dodson , Halszka Osmólska (eds.): The Dinosauria . 2nd edition. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 2004, ISBN 0-520-24209-2 .