Jintasaurus Jintasaurus
"Jinta County dragon"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jintasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.