Types of Dinosaurs

Names of Dinosaurs & Dinosaur Information
Dinosaur Name:

Claosaurus

- Pronunciation: CLAY-o-SAWR-us
- Translation: Broken Lizard
- Order: Ornithischia
- Suborder: Ornithopoda
- Infraorder: Iguanodontia
- Family: Hadrosauridae
- Height: 6 feet (1.8 meters)
- Weight: 2,000 lbs (907 kg)
- Length: 12 feet (3.7 meters)
- Period: Late Cretaceous
- Description: Herbivore, Bipedal, semi Quadrupedal
- Notes: One complete skeleton was found apparently frozen in a running position, with the body held horizontally, the tailoutstretched, and the head thrown back. (No skull was found.)This plant-eating hadrosaur propably had a duck-shaped billor a toothless beak.