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beaked plant-eater
Jintasaurus
Say it like this: “JEEN-tah-SOR-us”
Jintasaurus meniscus
Jintasaurus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Aptian) · roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2009 · You, H. L.; Li, D. Q.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 7.8 m · 26 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China · Xiagou
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Hadrosauromorpha
The story in short
The genus Jintasaurus dates to 2009, the year H. L. You and D. Q. Li described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Aptian), roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Xiagou Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Jintasaurus at a length near 7.8 m.
On the family tree it sits in Hadrosauromorpha, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Bactrosaurus
Bactrosaurus johnsoni
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Claosaurus
Claosaurus agilis
Late Cretaceous (Coniacian · Santonian) · roughly 89.8 to 83.6 million years ago
Eolambia
Eolambia caroljonesa
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago