Bienosaurus
Name:
Bienosaurus
(Bien’s lizard).
Phonetic: By.no-sor-us.
Named By: Z. Dong - 2001.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Thyreophora, Ankylosauria, Scelidosauridae.
Species: B. lufengensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown due to lack of fossil remains.
Known locations: China, Yunnan Province.
Time period: Early Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skull, lower jaw
and teeth.
Bienosaurus is a genus of armoured dinosaur that lived in China during the early Jurassic. Although only known from fragmentary skull and jaw fossils, Bienosaurus is thought to have been similar to Scelidosaurus.
Further reading
- Primitive armored dinosaur from the Lufeng Basin, China, by Z.
Dong. In Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, D. H. Tanke and K.
Carpenter (eds.). - 2001.
- A reassessment of the purported ankylosaurian dinosaur Bienosaurus
lufengensis from the Lower Lufeng Formation of Yunnan,
China". Acta
Palaeontologica Polonica 64. - T. J. Raven, P. M. Barrett, X. Xu
& S. C. R. Maidment - 2019.
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