Dinosaurs · Armoured dinosaur

Yingshanosaurus

Say it ying-shan-oh-sore-us. The name means ‘Mt. Ying lizard’.

No length given in the museum's record.

The museum gives no length for this dinosaur, so we cannot draw it to scale.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of armoured dinosaurs

Diet: Plant-eater
When: Late Jurassic159 to 142 million years ago
Fossils found in: China
Named by: Watanabe (1992)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Thyreophora › Stegosauria

Where Yingshanosaurus sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Armoured dinosaurs. Plated and armoured plant-eaters, such as Stegosaurus and the ankylosaurs. See all 33

Lived at the same time

Chinshakiangosaurus · same country
Chungkingosaurus · same country
Sinraptor · same country
Yangchuanosaurus · same country
Euhelopus · same country
Mamenchisaurus · same country
Chaoyangsaurus · same country
Anchiornis · same country

Other armoured dinosaurs

Chungkingosaurus Late Jurassic
Tuojiangosaurus Late Jurassic
Kentrosaurus Late Jurassic
Dacentrurus Late Jurassic
Gargoyleosaurus Late Jurassic
Hesperosaurus Late Jurassic
Stegosaurus Late Jurassic
Spicomellus Mid Jurassic

Source: Yingshanosaurus 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.