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Thescelosauridae

Jeholosaurus

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jeholosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Jeholosaurus
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (125.75–125.68 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Thescelosauridae
Jeholosaurus reconstruction by IJReid
Reconstruction · IJReid (CC-BY)

Jeholosaurus is a genus of small neornithischian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous-aged Yixian Formation of what is now China.

What we know

  • Named by Xu et al., 2000.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Jeholosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.