Jinyunpelta
Field photograph to come
Jinyunpelta
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- Lived
- 113 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Ankylosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Zheng et al. 2018
Field notes
About Jinyunpelta
Jinyunpelta was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 113 to 101 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ankylosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Jinyunpelta, from China. Its fossils come from the Liangtoutang Formation. It was named by Zheng et al. in 2018.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
105 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ankylosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: W.-J. Zheng, X.-S. Jin, and Y. Azuma, Q.-Y. Wang, K. Miyata, X. Xu . 2018. The most basal ankylosaurine dinosaur from the Albian-Cenomanian of China, with implications for the evolution of the tail club. Scientific Reports 8(3711)