Yandusaurus
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| Yandusaurus hongheensis He, 1979 |
Yandusaurus was a genus of hypsilophodontid dinosaur of the Bathonian age (middle Jurassic, approximately 169 to 163 mya) of China.
A fast-moving biped, Yandusaurus had four toes on each foot and five fingers on each hand. It was 1 m (3 ft) to 1.6 m (5 ft) in length, and around 0.3 m (1 ft) in height, weighing around 7 kg (15 lb). One species (Y. hongheensis) is known from two nearl complete skeletons. He and Cai (1983) and Paul (1992) identified a second species, Yandusaurus multidens, which was later re-assigned to the genus Agilisaurus as A. multidens, and subsequently placed in its own genus, Hexinlusaurus
