Eugongbusaurus

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iEugongbusaurus
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Ornithopoda
Family: Hypsilophodontidae
Genus: Eugongbusaurus
Binomial name
Eugongbusaurus wucaiwanensis
Knoll, 1999

Eugongbusaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It was a hypsilophodont. Its fossils were found in China.

The type species, Eugongbusaurus wucaiwanensis was informally described (as "Gongbusaurus") in 1989 by Dong, and redescribed (as Eugongbusaurus) in 1999 by Knoll.

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