Zhanghenglong yangchengensis Xing et al. 2014 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: H. Xing, D. -Y. Wang, F.-L. Han, C. Sullivan, Q.-Y. Ma, Y.-M. He, D. W. E. Hone, R.-H. Yan, F.-M. Du and X. Xu. 2014. A new basal hadrosauroid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) with transitional features from the Late Cretaceous of Henan Province, China. PLoS One 9(6): e98821

Belongs to Zhanghenglong according to H. Xing et al. 2014

See also Cruzado-Caballero and Powell 2017, Dalla Vecchia 2020, Kobayashi et al. 2021 and Tan et al. 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: XMDFEC V0013, a partial skull (an incomplete, disarticulated cranium, including the nearly complete right maxilla, as well as the partial right jugal and dentary). Its type locality is Zhoujiagou Village (Unit 2), which is in a Santonian terrestrial horizon in the Majiacun Formation of China.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Zhoujiagou Village (Unit 2)

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