Silvisaurus

Pronunciation:
sil-vi-sore-us
Name meaning:
'forest lizard'
Type of dinosaur:
armoured dinosaur
Length:
4.0m
Diet:
herbivorous
When it lived:
Early Cretaceous, 121-112 million years ago
Found in:
USA

Silvisaurus is known from a skull and fragmentary postcrania, so reconstructions are mostly guesswork based on similar dinosaurs.

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Thyreophora, Ankylosauria, Nodosauridae
Named by:
Eaton (1960)
Type species:
condrayi