Yuxisaurus
Name:
Yuxisaurus
(Yuxi lizard).
Phonetic: Yu-ze-sor-us.
Named By: Xi Yao, Paul M Barrett, Lei Yang,
Xing Xu & Shundong Bi - 2022.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Thyreophora.
Species: Y. kopchicki
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Estimated about 4 meters long.
Known locations: China - Fengjiahe Formation.
Time period: Sinemurian-Toarcian of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and post
cranial skeleton as well as well over a hundred osteoderms.
Yuxisaurus
is a genus of armoured dinosaur that lived in Asia during the
Jurassic. Quadrupedal and a browser of low growing vegetation,
Yuxisaurusis considered to be a basal member of
the thyreophoran
dinosaurs.
Further reading
- A new early-branching armoured thyreophoran dinosaur from the Lower
Jurassic of southwestern China. - bioRxiv: 1–43. - Xi Yao,
Paul M Barrett, Lei Yang, Xing Xu & Shundong Bi -
2022.
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