Wulagasaurus

Woo-lag-ah-sore-us.
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Benjamin Gutierrez

Vertebrate Paleontologist

Benjamin Gutierrez is a leading expert on dinosaurs, particularly the mighty theropods. His fieldwork in South America has uncovered new species and provided insights into dinosaur social structures.

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Name

Wulagasaurus ‭(‬Wulaga lizard‭)‬.

Phonetic

Woo-lag-ah-sore-us.

Named By

Pascal Godefroit,‭ ‬Shulin Hai,‭ ‬Tingxiang Yu and Pascaline Lauters‭ ‬-‭ ‬2008.

Classification

Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauria,‭ ‬Ornithischia,‭ ‬Ornithopoda,‭ ‬Hadrosauridae,‭ ‬Saurolophinae.

Diet

Herbivore.

Species

W.‭ ‬dongi‭

Size

Uncertain.

Known locations

China,‭ ‬Heilongjiang Province‭ ‬-‭ ‬Yuliangze Formation.

Time Period

Late Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.

Fossil representation

Initially described from a partial dentary,‭ ‬further cranial‭ ‬and post cranial remains have since been attributed to the genus.

In Depth

       Wulagasaurus is one of many hadrosaurs that have been found from the Amur River region.‭ ‬Although the genus is represented by a collection of scattered fossils in a bone bed,‭ ‬Wulagasaurus seems to have been a saurolophine hadrosaurid that was possibly related to Maiasaura and Bachylophosaurus.‭ ‬Wulagasaurus was not the only new hadrosaur discovered near the Amur River in‭ ‬2008,‭ ‬the same team also described the lambeosaurine Sahaliyania at the same time as Wulagasaurus.

Further Reading

– New hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the uppermost Cretaceous of northeastern China,‭ ‬Pascal Godefroit,‭ ‬Shulin Hai,‭ ‬Tingxiang Yu and Pascaline Lauters‭ ‬-‭ ‬2008.

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