Hexinlusaurus
Hexinlusaurus was a small, speedy plant-eater that lived in what is now China during the Middle Jurassic. It ran on two legs and used its beak to nibble on plants.1
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Hexinlusaurus was first thought to be a species of Yandusaurus, but scientists later gave it its own name in 2005.1
Its name honors Professor He Xin-Lu, who first described the fossils.1
The only known fossils include a nearly complete skull and some bones from the rest of the body.1
It lived during the Middle Jurassic, about 170 to 155 million years ago.2
Hexinlusaurus was a small, fast-running dinosaur that probably escaped predators by sprinting away.1
It had a special hollow on the side of a skull bone called the postorbital, which is unique to this dinosaur.1
Most asked questions about Hexinlusaurus
?How big was Hexinlusaurus?
It was a small dinosaur, but the sources do not give a specific length or weight. It is described as a small, fleet-footed herbivore.1
?What did Hexinlusaurus eat?
Hexinlusaurus was a herbivore. It used its beak to nibble on plants.1
?When did Hexinlusaurus live?
It lived during the Middle to Late Jurassic, about 168 to 161 million years ago.1
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- Scientific name
- Hexinlusaurus
- Named by
- Barrett et al. 20055
- Group
- Beaked plant-eaters
- Family / clade
- Neornithischia5
- Classification
- Ornithischia5
- Age of the rocks
- 171 to 155 million years (Bajocian / Oxfordian)5
- Rock formations
- Shaximiao5
- Countries
- China5
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database5
- Discovery
- The fossils were found in the Lower Shaximiao Formation in Dashanpu, China. They were first named Yandusaurus multidens in 1983, but in 2005 scientists Barrett, Butler, and Knoll gave it the new name Hexinlusaurus.1
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Hexinlusaurus is related to other early ornithischian dinosaurs, as different studies place it in different groups.2
Where the facts come from
- Hexinlusaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- HEXINLUSAURUS - DinoChecker dinosaur archive (dinochecker.com)
- Hexinlusaurus multidens | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
- Hexinlusaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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