Dinosaurs · Armoured dinosaur
Tuojiangosaurus
Say it too-YANG-oh-sore-us. The name means ‘Tuo River lizard’.
- Length
- 7 m
- Weight
- 1.5 tonnes
- Diet
- Plant-eatersoft shoots and ferns
- Walked
- On 4 legs
- When
- Late Jurassic157 to 154 million years ago
- Fossils found in
- China
- Named by
- Dong, Li, Zhou and Zhang (1973)
- Family tree
- Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Thyreophora › Stegosauria › Stegosauridae › Stegosaurinae
Armoured dinosaurs. Plated and armoured plant-eaters, such as Stegosaurus and the ankylosaurs. See all 33
Lived at the same time
- Anchiornis · same country
- Chinshakiangosaurus · same country
- Chungkingosaurus · same country
- Guanlong · same country
- Sinraptor · same country
- Yangchuanosaurus · same country
- Yingshanosaurus · same country
- Yinlong · same country
Other armoured dinosaurs
- Chungkingosaurus Late Jurassic
- Kentrosaurus Late Jurassic
- Yingshanosaurus Late Jurassic
- Dacentrurus Late Jurassic
- Gargoyleosaurus Late Jurassic
- Hesperosaurus Late Jurassic
- Stegosaurus Late Jurassic
- Hylaeosaurus Early Cretaceous
Source: Tuojiangosaurus 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.