Yueosaurus
Field photograph to come
Yueosaurus
DV-0837
- Lived
- 113 to 94 million years ago, Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early ornithischians, Thescelosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Zheng et al. 2012
Field notes
About Yueosaurus
Yueosaurus was a plant-eating early ornithischian that lived in the Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 113 to 94 million years ago. It belongs to the family Thescelosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Yueosaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Liangtoutang Formation. It was named by Zheng et al. in 2012.
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 Thescelosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: W. Zheng, X. Jin, and M. Shibata, Y. Azuma, F.-M. Yu. 2012. A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Liangtoutang Formation of Tiantai, Zhejiang Province, China. Cretaceous Research 34:208-219