Jintasaurus

Jintasaurus (Chinese: 金塔龙; pinyin: Jīntǎ lóng; meaning "Jinta County dragon") is a genus of hadrosauriform dinosaur described by Hai-Lu You (尤海鲁, Yóu Hǎilǔ) and Da-Qing Li (李大庆, Lǐ Dàqìng) in 2009. The type species is J. meniscus. Jintasaurus lived during the Early Cretaceous of what is now Gansu, northwestern China. The fossils were discovered in Jinta County, Jiuquan, Gansu, China. The discovery supports the theory that hadrosaurs originated in Asia. The holotype and only known specimen includes the postorbital skull, lacking the jugal and quadratojugal.[1]

Jintasaurus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Albian
Skeletal mount
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Ornithopoda
Clade: Hadrosauromorpha
Genus: Jintasaurus
You & Li, 2009
Species:
J. meniscus
Binomial name
Jintasaurus meniscus
You & Li, 2009

References

  1. Hai-Lu You; Da-Qing Li (2009). "A new basal hadrosauriform dinosaur (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia) from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern China". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 46 (12): 949–957. doi:10.1139/E09-067.


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