Fukuisaurus
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| phylum | Chordata | Fukuisaurus (meaning "Fukui lizard") is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was an ornithopod which lived in what is now Japan. Fukuisaurus is a relatively small species. In 2010 Gregory S. Paul estimated the length at 4.5 metres, the weight at four hundred kilograms. Being a bipedal, optionally quadrupedal, animal, it was similar in general build to Iguanodon, Ouranosaurus and Altirhinus. According to the describers Fukuisaurus was exceptional in that its skull was not kinetic: the tooth-bearing maxilla would be so strongly fused to the vomer that a sideways chewing motion would have been impossible.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| order | †Ornithischia | |
| clade | †Ornithopoda | |
| superfamily | †Hadrosauroidea | |
| genus | †Fukuisaurus | |
| species | †F. tetoriensis | |
| Temporal range | Early Cretaceous |
