Name:
Weewarrasaurus.
Phonetic: We-wah-rah-sor-us.
Named By: Phil R. Bell, Matthew C. Herne,
Tom Brougham & Elizabeth T. Smith - 2018
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda.
Species: W. pobeni (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown due to lack of remains.
Known locations: Australia - Griman Creek
Formation.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Two partial dentaries’
(lower jaws).
Weewarrasaurus
is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur that lived in Australia during the
late Cretaceous. At the time of writing, Weewarrasaurus
is known
from only two dentaries’ (lower jaws), so precise details about
this dinosaur are otherwise unknown.
Further reading
- Ornithopod diversity in
the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales,
Australia. - PeerJ. 6. - Phil R. Bell, Matthew C.
Herne, Tom Brougham & Elizabeth T. Smith - 2018.
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