Wuerhosaurus by Moondawg

Wuerhosaurus was a Chinese stegosaur from Early Cretaceous period. It was roughly 7 metres long.

Wuerhosaurus homheni is the type species, described by Dong Zhiming in 1973 from the Tugulu Group in Xinjiang, western China. A smaller species from the Ejinhoro Formation in the Ordos Basin in Inner Mongolia, W. ordosensis, was formalized by the same researcher in 1993.

It was lower to the ground than most other stegosaurids; scientists believe that this was an adaptation to let it feed on low-growing vegetation. Unlike Stegosaurus, Wuerhosaurus had shorter, rounded plates, whose purpose is debated. Wuerhosaurus, like other stegosaurids, had a thagomizer on the end of its tail, which featured four bony spikes that would most likely have been used for self-defense.

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