Yandusaurus
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| Yandusaurus Fossil range: Middle Jurassic |
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Yandusaurus is a genus of hypsilophodontid dinosaur from 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 meters (3 ft) to 1.6 meters (5 ft) in length, and around 0.3 meters (1 ft) in height, weighing around 7 kilograms (15 lb). One species (Y. hongheensis) is known from two nearly complete skeletons. He and Cai (1983) and Paul (1992) identified a second species, Y. multidens, which was later re-assigned to the genus Agilisaurus as A. multidens, and subsequently placed in its own genus, Hexinlusaurus.
[edit] References
- Yandusaurus in the Dinosaur Encyclopaedia at Dino Russ's Lair
