Tianyulong

Tianyulong confuciusi

Tianyulong — scientific reconstruction

Tianyulong (Chinese: 天宇龍; Pinyin: tiānyǔlóng; named for the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature where the holotype fossil is housed) is an extinct genus of heterodontosaurid ornithischian dinosaur. The only species is T. confuciusi, whose remains were discovered in Jianchang County, Western Liaoning Province, China.

Family
Heterodontosauridae
Order
Ornithischia
Period
Cretaceous (161 Ma)
Diet
Herbivore
Length
0.7 m
Weight
0.5 kg
Type locality
Liaoning, China
Holotype
STM-15-1
PBDB
txn:143495

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