Outline: a typical early ornithischian
Yueosaurus
"Zhejiang lizard"
- 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
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
105 million years ago
Field notes
About Yueosaurus
What it was like
Yueosaurus was a small, two-legged plant eater, known from part of a skeleton. It was a relative of Orodromeus and Zephyrosaurus.
Its world
It lived in the Cretaceous in what is now eastern China. Its bones come from the Liangtoutang Formation, where it shared the land with the armored Jinyunpelta.
How it was found
Zheng and colleagues named Yueosaurus in 2012, from a single find.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Thescelosauridae
Sources: 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