Pronounced woo-EHR-ho-SAWR-us Named By - Dong Zhiming When Named - 1973
DIET:	Herbivore (plant-eater)
SIZE:	Length - 27 ft (8.1 m) long Height - 6 ft (1.8 m) tall at the hips Weight - about 4 tons
WHEN IT LIVED:	Early Cretaceous period, about 135-120 million years ago
WHERE IT LIVED:	Fossils have been found in Xinjiang, China, Asia.
FOSSILS:	A partial fossil (without a complete skull) has been found.
CLASSIFICATION:	Kingdom Animalia (animals) Phylum Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain) Class Archosauria (diapsids with socket-set teeth, etc.) Order Ornithischia - bird-hipped dinosaurs Suborder Thyreophora - armored dinosaurs Family Stegosauria - plated dinosaurs Genus Wuerhosaurus Species W. homheni (type species named by Dong, 1973)
INTERESTING FACTS:	Wuerhosaurus was a stegosaurid (related to Stegosaurus) that had bony, rounded plates along its back and 4 bony spikes at the tip of its tail (thagomizers). It had a shorter body and wider hip bones than other stegosaurids.