Nipponosaurus

Name: Nipponosaurus

Pronounced: Nip-pon-o-sore-us

Meaning: Japanese lizard

Type: Euornithopod

Length: 4 meters long

Diet: Herbivore

Period: Late Cretaceous

Years: 89-84 million years ago

Location: Russia

Description: Nipponosaurus is a genus of small, herbivorous dinosaur that lived in Japan during the Early Cretaceous period, around 125 million years ago. It was a member of the ornithopod group of dinosaurs, which also included hadrosaurs and iguanodonts. Nipponosaurus had a small head with a long, narrow snout and a row of small, sharp teeth. It had a relatively small body, with four short, sturdy legs and long, thin toes. It is thought to have been a fast runner, and may have used its toes to grasp onto branches while feeding on leaves and other vegetation. Nipponosaurus is known from a single, fragmentary skeleton that was found in the Kitadani Formation of Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

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