🎨 RestorationRestoration: Connor Ashbridge · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Life restorations are artistic reconstructions based on fossil evidence; true coloration and soft-tissue details remain uncertain.
Huayangosaurus
Huayangosaurus taibaii (Huayangosaurus · Huayangosaurus)
Known only from fossils. The IUCN Red List assesses only species extant since 1500 CE, so fossil taxa are not assigned a category.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 An estimated body length of 4.5 m is similar to the length of a single passenger car (Comparison).
- 💡 An estimated body length of 4.5 m is slightly shorter than a 1-ton truck (about 5 m) (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
Huayangosaurus taibaii (genus Huayangosaurus) was a herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur that lived in China during the Middle Jurassic about 1 hundred 70 million to 1 hundred 60 million years ago, and its name means "Huayang lizard."
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It was an armored dinosaur (stegosaurian, Stegosauria) with bony plates and spines on its body, and belongs to the family Huayangosauridae.
🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology
It ate plants. Dong, Tang, and Zhou named it in 1982, and the type species is taibaii.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • Fossil taxon — the IUCN Red List assesses only species living or extinct since 1500
- • paleobiodb.org — basicTaxonInfo
- • wikidata.org — Q109029850
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Huayangosaurus taibaii 20050707 07.jpg
- • nhm.ac.uk — huayangosaurus.html
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Nobu Tamura (modified by T. Michael Keesey) · CC BY 3.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.