Jeholosaurus
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Jeholosaurus Fossil range: Early Cretaceous |
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Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis skeleton reconstruction (Dinosaurland, Lyme Regis).
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Fossil
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Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis Xu et al, 2000 |
Jeholosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period. It lived in what is now China and its fossils have been found in the Yixian Formation. It was a hypsilophodont, a primitive ornithopod. Like all ornithopods, it was herbivorous.
The type species, Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis, was described using two partial skeletons by Xu, Wang and You in 2000.