Bienosaurus
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| Bienosaurus Fossil range: Early Jurassic |
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| Bienosaurus lufengensis Dong, 2001 |
Bienosaurus (meaning "Bien's lizard") was a dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. The genus was a armored dinosaur from the Lower Lufeng Formation in Yunnan Province in China.
[edit] Discovery and species
The discoverer and person who first described the specimen was Dong Zhiming in 2001, based on a right lower jaw and teeth. Other known material includes a nearly complete right mandibular ramus with teeth and several cranial fragments. The type species is B. lufengensis.
[edit] References
Dong Zhiming (2001). "Primitive Armored Dinosaur from the Lufeng Basin, China", in Tanke, Darren H. & Carpenter, Kenneth (ed.): Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Indiana University Press, 237-243. ISBN 0-253-33907-3.
[edit] External links
- Bienosaurus at DinoData
- Thescelosaurus! on Bienosaurus.
- Fact sheet, in German
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