Hesperosaurus was a herbivore. It lived in the Jurassic period and inhabited North America. Its fossils have been found in places such as Wyoming and Montana.
Quick facts about Hesperosaurus:
- Existed from 161.2 million years ago to Tithonian Age
- Lived in a terrestrial habitat
- Was a herbivore
- Reproduced by laying eggs
- 4 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Hesperosaurus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- D. C. Woodruff and J. R. Foster. 2017. The first specimen of Camarasaurus (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from Montana: the northernmost occurrence of the genus. PLOS ONE 12(5):e0177423:1-61
- D. E. Schmude and C. J. Weege. 1996. Stratigraphic relationship, sedimentology, and taphonomy of Meilyn, a dinosaur quarry in the basal Morrison Formation of Wyoming. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:547-554
- E. T. Saitta. 2015. Evidence for sexual dimorphism in the plated dinosaur Stegosaurus mjosi (Ornithischia, Stegosauria) from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of western USA. PLoS ONE 10(4):e0123503:1-20
