• Was less than 2 feet long and probably weighed about 15 pounds
• Lived in southern Africa about 200 millions years ago
• Herbivore
• Its body might have been covered in quills
• Had parrotlike beak
• Teeth in upper and lower jaws operated like self-sharpening scissors
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