Monkonosaurus
Name: »Monkon lizard«
Length: 5 m
Height: 1,8 m
Weight: 1 ton
Diet: herbivore
Time: Jurassic (155-150 MYA)
Location: Asia (China)
Monkonosaurus (meaning “Monkon lizard”) is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian stage, around 150-155 million years ago). It was a stegosaur which lived in what is now Tibet. The type specimen, Monkonosaurus lawulacus was formalized by Zhao in 1983, but is based only on one partial skeleton. The fragmentary condition of this single skeleton places doubt on the validity of this genus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Thyreophora
Infraorder: Stegosauria
Family: Stegosauridae
Genus: Monkonosaurus Zhao, 1983
Species: M. lawulacus