Yueosaurus tiantaiensis Zheng et al. 2012 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: W. Zheng, X. Jin, M. Shibata, Y. Azuma, and F.-M. Yu. 2012. A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Liangtoutang Formation of Tiantai, Zhejiang Province, China. Cretaceous Research 34:208-219

Belongs to Yueosaurus according to W. Zheng et al. 2012

See also Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2019, Dieudonné et al. 2020, Ibiricu et al. 2019 and Xing et al. 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ZMNH M8620, a set of postcrania (Consists of a partial postcranial skeleton including six posterior cervical vertebrae, five anterior dorsal vertebrae, two middle dorsal vertebrae, nine c). Its type locality is Construction site, G15w Expressway (Shangsan), which is in an Albian/Cenomanian lacustrine - small sandstone in the Liangtoutang Formation of China.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Construction site, G15w Expressway (Shangsan)

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