Type Species: Yingshanosaurus jichuanensis
Classification: Dinosauria – Ornithischia – Thyreophora – Stegosauria – Stegosauridae – Stegosaurinae
Time Period: Late Jurassic
Location: China
Diet: Herbivore
The Chinese stegosaur Yingshanosaurus was on the smaller side of things, growing to about sixteen feet snout-to-thagomizer, and it’s known for a pair of broad, wing-like spines on its shoulders that were flat like the bony plates on its back. These shoulder spines had large, flat, trapezoidal bases; after a sudden kink, they were reduced to a more narrow straight shaft that remained flat but with a protruding ridge on the outer side. The plates on its back were small and relatively low, and they were triangular or fin-shaped. The largest plates were only about five inches high and seven and a half inches long. These plates were uniformly flat with a rough, veined surface. As a low browser, Yingshanosaurus plodded through the Jurassic forests of prehistoric China munching on cycads and ferns.
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