Xiaosaurus
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| Xiaosaurus dashanpensis Dong and Tang, 1983 |
Xiaosaurus (little lizard, pronounced (IPA) /ʃoˈsɔrəs/, from Chinese xiao 小, little), is a dubious genus of small herbivorous dinosaur of the Bathonian age (middle Jurassic, approximately 169 to 163 mya). Xiaosaurus lived in the Sichuan Basin of China. It is known only from teeth and a few isolated bones, remains too fragmentary to accurately classify the species. It is definitely a member of the order Ornithischia, and possibly a hypsilophodontid or marginocephalian. The type species, X. dashanpensis (Dong Zhiming & Tang Zilu, 1983), is itself a nomen dubium. Xiaosaurus may provide an evolutionary link from Lesothosaurus to Hypsilophodon, but this is uncertain.
[edit] References
- Enchanted Learning on Xiaosaurus
- Dino Russ's Lair on Xiaosaurus
- Jurassic Park institute on Xiaosaurus
- DinoDictionary.com's entry for Xiaosaurus
