Dinosaurs · Armoured dinosaur
Struthiosaurus
Say it strew-thee-oh-sore-us. The name means ‘ostrich lizard’.
- Length
- 2.5 m
- Diet
- Plant-eater
- When
- Late Cretaceous83 to 75 million years ago
- Fossils found in
- Austria, France, Romania, Spain
- Named by
- Bunzel (1871)
- Family tree
- Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Thyreophora › Ankylosauria › Nodosauridae
Armoured dinosaurs. Plated and armoured plant-eaters, such as Stegosaurus and the ankylosaurs. See all 33
Lived at the same time
- Pyroraptor · same country
- Telmatosaurus · same country
- Rhabdodon · same country
- Achelousaurus
- Alectrosaurus
- Anserimimus
- Archaeornithomimus
- Aucasaurus
Other armoured dinosaurs
- Pinacosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Saichania Late Cretaceous
- Panoplosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Edmontonia Late Cretaceous
- Euoplocephalus Late Cretaceous
- Tarchia Late Cretaceous
- Ankylosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Talarurus Late Cretaceous
Source: Struthiosaurus in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.