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Ankylosauridae

Jinyunpelta

Generic ankylosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jinyunpelta 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ankylosaur body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Jinyunpelta
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ankylosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria Club-tailed armored herbivores.

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.

What we guess

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