Jinyunpelta sinensis was named by Zheng et al. (2018) [A derived ankylosaurid dinosaur differing from other ankylosaurid species in having the following combinations of features (autapomorphies indicated by *): two paranasal apertures C1 and C2 located posterior to the external naris and the center of the apertures on the same level with the center of the external naris*; a triangular fossa on anterodorsal edge of the maxilla*; two oval cavities on the dorsal of the nasal; the antorbital fossa present in the junction area of the maxilla, lacrimal and jugal; the prefrontal extending ventrally and contacts the maxilla; the postorbital excluded from the posterior rim of the orbit*; the anterior portion of the prearticular underlying the posterior portion of the splenial*; the dorsal centrum elongated with the ratio of length to the width more than 1.3; the tail club knob roughly hexagonal in dorsal view, with the widest point close to the distal end; and a prominent scar present mediodorsal to the medial condyle of the femur*.]. Its type specimen is ZMNH M8960, a partial skeleton (A partial postcranial skeleton including an almost complete tail club, left tibia and fibula), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shuhong quarry, which is in an Albian lacustrine sandstone in the Liangtoutang Formation of China.