Fukuisaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Reconstructed skeleton | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Clade: | †Ankylopollexia |
Clade: | †Styracosterna |
Genus: | †Fukuisaurus Kobayashi & Azuma, 2003 |
Species: | †F. tetoriensis
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Binomial name | |
†Fukuisaurus tetoriensis Kobayashi & Azuma, 2003
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Fukuisaurus (meaning "Fukui (Fortunate) lizard") is a genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now Japan. The type species is F. tetoriensis, which was named and described in 2003.[1]