Hexinlusaurus
Field photograph to come
Hexinlusaurus
DV-0578
- Lived
- 171 to 155 million years ago, Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early ornithischians
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Barrett et al. 2005
Field notes
About Hexinlusaurus
Hexinlusaurus was a plant-eating early ornithischian that lived in the Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 171 to 155 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Hexinlusaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Shaximiao Formation. It was named by Barrett et al. in 2005.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
165 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Neornithischia.
- NanosaurusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- EnigmacursorLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- AgilisaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- PulaosaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- YandusaurusMiddle Jurassic
- MinimocursorLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- SanxiasaurusEarly Jurassic to Middle Jurassic
- StormbergiaEarly Jurassic
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. M. Barrett, R. J. Butler, and F. Knoll. 2005. Small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic of Sichuan, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4):823-834