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Dinosgacha

Dinosaur

Agilisaurus

Its species name honors George Louderback, who studied fossils from Sichuan.

The teeth of Agilisaurus show details that cannot be seen in an illustration of the entire animal.

Agilisaurus at a glance

Diet
Herbivore
A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
When it lived
Jurassic
Group
Neornithischia
Neornithischians
Fossil locations
China
Places where fossils have been found

Beyond the game

The real Agilisaurus

It was small, about one to two meters long. Leaf-shaped teeth and rippled enamel are linked to an abrasive plant-based diet.

Its species name honors George Louderback, who studied fossils in Sichuan. Leaf-shaped teeth with rippled enamel are linked to processing abrasive plants. Tiny surfaces can reveal feeding clues that the animal’s whole outline cannot.

This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.

Fossil discoveries

China · approximate location
China

Selected fossil records · present-day map

Map references

Wikipedia ↗

Map location · China ↗

Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.

Sources & text credits

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  1. Agilisaurus louderbacki

    Wikipedia contributors · Spanish source

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  2. Agilisaurus

    Wikipedia contributors · English source

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  3. Neornithischia

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  4. Living birds

    Wikipedia contributors · English source

    Educational text adapted and translated from this article by Wikipedia contributors. The revision link, when captured in the source catalogue, identifies the source version.

Educational text adapted in English from the existing Wikipedia-backed Dinosgacha catalogue and linked articles by Wikipedia contributors.

Existing English translations have been selected and arranged for this encyclopedia. Repeated period and diet text is omitted where those fields already carry it. Unknown facts remain unfilled; unreviewed geological age phrases are omitted and period labels replace numerical ages.

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