Hexinlusaurus

Say it like this: “huh-SHEEN-lu-SOR-us”

Hexinlusaurus multidens

Hexinlusaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in China.

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When: Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago
Named in: 2005 · Barrett, P. M.; Butler, R. J.; Knoll, F.
Hip height: 0.6 m · 2 ft
Length: 2.3 m · 8 ft
Weight: 30 kg · 66 lb
Found in: China · Shaximiao
Food and walking: Herbivore · Two legs
Kind: bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
Family branch: Neornithischia

The story in short

In 2005, P. M. Barrett and colleagues published the name Hexinlusaurus. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.

Fossils referred to Hexinlusaurus date to the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian), roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Shaximiao Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.

Published estimates put Hexinlusaurus at a length near 2.3 m, hips about 0.6 m high, and a body mass around 30 kg.

On the family tree it sits in Neornithischia, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.

Close relatives

Agilisaurus

Agilisaurus louderbacki

Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago

Enigmacursor

Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae

Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian · Tithonian) · roughly 154.8 to 143.1 million years ago

Kulindadromeus

Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus

Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) · roughly 168.2 to 165.3 million years ago