Jinyunpelta Jinyunpelta
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jinyunpelta 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
Jinyunpelta (“Jinyun shield”) is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurine thyreophoran dinosaur from the Cretaceous Liangtoutang Formation of Jinyun County, Zhejiang, China; it has one species, the type species J. sinensis. This species is the basalmost ankylosaur known to have had a proper tail club.
What we know
- Named by Zheng et al., 2018.
- Fossils found in China.