Wannanosaurus

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iWannanosaurus
Conservation status
Exinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Marginocephalia
Infraorder: Pachycephalosauria
Family: Pachycephalosauridae
Genus: Wannanosaurus
Species

Wannanosaurus ("Wannano lizard", named after the Province in China, where it was discovered) was a primitive pachycephalosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of China, about 80 million years ago (mya).

It was a bipedal homalocephalid (like Homalocephale), sharing the characteristic of a flat-topped, thickened skull.

It may have been a herbivore, grazing on low lying plants and living in a herd.

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