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bird-hipped dinosaur
Yueosaurus
Say it like this: “yoo-SOR-us”
Yueosaurus tiantaiensis
Yueosaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous · Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Early Cretaceous · Late Cretaceous (Albian · Cenomanian) · roughly 113.2 to 93.9 million years ago
- Named in
- 2012 · Zheng, W.; Jin, X.; Shibata, M.; Azuma, Y.; Yu, F.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 1 m · 3 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China · Liangtoutang
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Neornithischia
The story in short
Yueosaurus was formally named in 2012 by W. Zheng and colleagues. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous · Late Cretaceous (Albian · Cenomanian), roughly 113.2 to 93.9 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Liangtoutang Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Yueosaurus at a length near 1 m.
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
Hexinlusaurus
Hexinlusaurus multidens
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago