Jeholosauridae

Jeholosauridae
Temporal range: Early to Late Cretaceous,

Possible Campanian record

Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis skeleton reconstruction (Dinosaurland, Lyme Regis).
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Ornithischia
Clade: Cerapoda
Suborder: Ornithopoda
Family: Jeholosauridae
Han et al., 2012
Genera

Jeholosaurids were herbivorous ornithopod dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period (Aptian - Santonian, with a possible Campanian record) of Asia. The family was first proposed by Han et al. in 2012. The jeholosaurids were defined as those ornithischians more closely related to Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis than to Hypsilophodon foxii, Iguanodon bernissartensis, Protoceratops andrewsi, Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis, or Thescelosaurus neglectus. The Jeholosauridae includes the type genus Jeholosaurus and Yueosaurus.[1][2]

References

  1. Han, Feng-Lu; Paul M. Barrett; Richard J. Butler; Xing Xu (2012). "Postcranial anatomy of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China.". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 (6): 1370–1395. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694385.
  2. Boyd CA. (2015) The systematic relationships and biogeographic history of ornithischian dinosaurs. PeerJ 3:e1523 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1523


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