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bird-hipped dinosaur
Jeholosaurus
Say it like this: “juh-HOH-lo-SAWR-us”
Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis
Jeholosaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago
- Named in
- 2000 · Xu, X.; Wang, X. L.; You, H. L.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 1.3 m · 4 ft
- Weight
- 6 kg · 13 lb
- Found in
- China · Yixian
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Jeholosauridae
The story in short
The genus Jeholosaurus dates to 2000, the year X. Xu and colleagues described it. The name means “jehol lizard.”
Fossils referred to Jeholosaurus date to the Early Cretaceous (Barremian), roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Yixian Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Jeholosaurus at a length near 1.3 m and a body mass around 6 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Jeholosauridae, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.