Tianyulong Tianyulong
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tianyulong 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (158.5 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Heterodontosauridae
Tianyulong (Chinese: 天宇龍; Pinyin: tiānyǔlóng; named for the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature where the holotype fossil is housed) is an extinct genus of heterodontosaurid ornithischian dinosaur. The only species is T. confuciusi, whose remains were discovered in Jianchang County, Western Liaoning Province, China.
What we know
- Named by Zheng et al., 2009.
- Fossils found in China.