Jintasaurus
| Jintasaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | Ornithopoda |
| Infraorder: | Iguanodontia |
| Genus: | Jintasaurus Hai-Lu You & Da-Qing Li, 2009 |
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Jintasaurus is a genus of hadrosauriform dinosaur described by Hai-Lu You and Da-Qing Li in 2009. The type species is J. meniscus. Jintasaurus lived during the Early Cretaceous of what is now Gansu, northwestern China. The discovery supports the theory that hadrosaurs originated in Asia.[1]
References
- ↑ Hai-Lu You; Da-Qing Li (2009). "A new basal hadrosauriform dinosaur (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia) from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern China". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 46 (12): 949–957. doi:10.1139/E09-067.