Describer

Dong, 1994

Time

Cretaceous Early

Classification

Ornithischia Thyreophora Stegosauria Stegosauridae Wuerhosaurinae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

China

Fall Under

Wuerhosaurus homheni

Info

Wuerhosaurus homheni (Dong, 1973) > Wuerhosaurus ordosensis (Dong, 1994)

Shortened stegosaur backs, which seems to have culminated with Wuerhosaurus ordosensis, an Early Cretaceous Chinese stegosaur that had just 11-12 dorsal vertebrae.

It also seems to have had the shortest forelimbs relative to hindlimbs of any stegosaur. (Dong, 1994)