Jintasaurus
"Jinta County dragon"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jintasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Jintasaurus (; meaning “Jinta County dragon”) is a genus of hadrosauriform dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous of what is now Jiuquan, Gansu, northwestern China. The type species is J. meniscus, described by Hai-Lu You and Da-Qing Li in 2009. The holotype and only known specimen includes the postorbital skull, lacking the jugal and quadratojugal, whose discovery supports the theory that hadrosaurs originated in Asia.
What we know
- Named by You & Li, 2009.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Jintasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.