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bird-hipped dinosaur · Doubtful name
Bienosaurus
Say it like this: “bee-EN-oh-SOR-us”
Bienosaurus lufengensis
Bienosaurus ate plants and moved in a way the fossils do not settle. It lived in the Early Jurassic. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Early Jurassic (Hettangian · Sinemurian) · roughly 201.4 to 192.9 million years ago
- Named in
- 2001 · Dong, Z.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China · Lufeng
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Not recorded
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Thyreophora
The story in short
The genus Bienosaurus dates to 2001, the year Z. Dong described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Bienosaurus date to the Early Jurassic (Hettangian · Sinemurian), roughly 201.4 to 192.9 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Lufeng Formation. It was a herbivore. A habitual gait is not settled.
The fossils of Bienosaurus are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Thyreophora, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Emausaurus
Emausaurus ernsti
Early Jurassic (Toarcian) · roughly 184.2 to 174.7 million years ago
Jakapil
Jakapil kaniukura
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago
Peishansaurus
Peishansaurus philemys
Early Cretaceous (Barremian · Aptian · Albian) · roughly 125.8 to 100.5 million years ago