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Yandusaurus
Taxonomy
Yandusaurus was named by He (1979).
It was assigned to Iguanodontidae by Zhao (1983); to Hypsilophodontia by Knoll (1999); to Ornithopoda by Buchholz (2002); to Euornithopoda by Norman et al. (2004); to Hypsilophodontidae by He and Cai (1983), He and Cai (1984), He (1984), Sereno (1986), Benton (1990), Sues and Norman (1990), Weishampel and Heinrich (1992), Dong (1992), Carpenter (1994), Sues (1997), Sereno (1997), Peng et al. (2005), Li et al. (2011) and Alifanov and Saveliev (2014); and to Neornithischia by Madzia et al. (2018) and Herne et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Iguanodontidae by Zhao (1983); to Hypsilophodontia by Knoll (1999); to Ornithopoda by Buchholz (2002); to Euornithopoda by Norman et al. (2004); to Hypsilophodontidae by He and Cai (1983), He and Cai (1984), He (1984), Sereno (1986), Benton (1990), Sues and Norman (1990), Weishampel and Heinrich (1992), Dong (1992), Carpenter (1994), Sues (1997), Sereno (1997), Peng et al. (2005), Li et al. (2011) and Alifanov and Saveliev (2014); and to Neornithischia by Madzia et al. (2018) and Herne et al. (2019).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1979 | Yandusaurus He |
| 1983 | Yandusaurus He and Cai p. 6 |
| 1983 | Yandusaurus Zhao p. 304 |
| 1984 | Yandusaurus He p. 70 |
| 1984 | Yandusaurus He and Cai p. 4 |
| 1986 | Yandusaurus Sereno |
| 1990 | Yandusaurus Benton p. 26 |
| 1990 | Yandusaurus Sues and Norman p. 500 |
| 1992 | Yandusaurus Dong p. 165 |
| 1992 | Yandusaurus Weishampel and Heinrich p. 163 |
| 1994 | Yandusaurus Carpenter p. 289 |
| 1997 | Yandusaurus Sereno p. 448 |
| 1997 | Yandusaurus Sues p. 357 |
| 1999 | Yandusaurus Knoll p. 65 |
| 2002 | Yandusaurus Buchholz p. 21 |
| 2004 | Yandusaurus Norman et al. p. 395 |
| 2005 | Yandusaurus Peng et al. |
| 2011 | Yandusaurus Li et al. p. 23 |
| 2014 | Yandusaurus Alifanov and Saveliev p. 419 |
| 2018 | Yandusaurus Madzia et al. p. 973 fig. 4 |
| 2019 | Yandusaurus Herne et al. p. 573 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. Peng et al. 2005 | As for type species Yandusaurus hongheensis He, 1979. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Marsh 1875, Peczkis 1995 | |||||