🎨 RestorationLife reconstruction
Restoration: Jun-Hyeok Jang · 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.
Koreanosaurus boseongensis
Koreanosaurus boseongensis (Koreanosaurus boseongensis · コリアノサウルス)
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
- 📏 Length 2.4m — ~1.4× the height of a 1.75 m adult human
- ⚖️ Mass 60kg — Equivalent to ~30 two-liter water bottles (2 kg each)
- ⚡ Speed 25km/h — ~0.7× Usain Bolt's 100 m world-record average speed (37.6 km/h)
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.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
Excavated in Bibong-ri, Boseong-gun, Jeollanam-do, it is a basal ornithopod herbivorous dinosaur that was the first to be officially given a genus name containing "Korea" by Korean researchers.
🌐 Wikipedia Summary ExtractKoreanosaurus is a genus of orodromine neornithischian dinosaur that lived during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous of what is now South Korea. One species has been described, Koreanosaurus boseongensis.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
With robustly developed shoulder blades and upper arm bones, it had a lifestyle of digging burrows to take shelter and care for its young.
🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology
It provides evidence for the migration routes of ornithopod dinosaurs between Asia and North America during the Cretaceous.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
It is a representative endemic species of the Boseong Bibong-ri Dinosaur Egg Fossil Site, Natural Monument (Korea) No. 418.
📚 Sources & References
- • Wikipedia “Koreanosaurus”
- • Wikidata Q20718552
- • Fossil taxon — the IUCN Red List assesses only species living or extinct since 1500
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Gareth Monger · CC BY 3.0 (Related taxon silhouette — Albertadromeus syntarsus)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.