Outline: a typical ornithopod
Equijubus
"horse mane"
- Lived
- 113 to 110 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- You et al. 2003
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
110 million years ago
Field notes
About Equijubus
What it was like
Equijubus was a plant eater, an early relative of the duck-billed dinosaurs, known from a skull and part of a skeleton. It had a beak and grinding teeth.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now northwestern China. Its bones come from the Zhonggou Formation, where it shared the land with Psittacosaurus, the early horned Archaeoceratops and Auroraceratops and the long-necked Gobititan.
How it was found
You and colleagues named Equijubus in 2003. Its name refers to a mountain near where it was found.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: H.-L. You, Z.-X. Luo, and N. H. Shubin, L. M. Witmer, Z.-L. Tang, F. Tang. 2003. The earliest-known duck-billed dinosaur from deposits of late Early Cretaceous age in northwest China and hadrosaur evolution. Cretaceous Research 24:348-355