Jintasaurus meniscus You and Li 2009 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: H.-L. You and D.-Q. Li. 2009. A new basal hadrosauriform dinosaur (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia) from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 46:949-957

Belongs to Jintasaurus according to W. Zheng et al. 2013

See also Cruzado-Caballero and Powell 2017, Fuentes Vidarte et al. 2016, Ji and Zhang 2022, McDonald et al. 2010, McDonald et al. 2014, Morschhauser et al. 2019, Prieto-Márquez 2011, Ramírez-Velasco et al. 2012, Verdú et al. 2015, Verdú et al. 2021, Yang et al. 2013, You and Li 2009, You et al. 2014 and You et al. 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: FRDC: GJ 06-2-52, a partial skull. Its type locality is Jiuquan area, which is in an Aptian terrestrial mudstone in the Xiagou Formation of China.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Jiuquan area

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