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TIANYULONG
(te-an-yu-long)
meaning: "Tianyu dragon - after the Tianyu Museum of Nature"
Tianyulong
Named By: Zheng, XiaoinTing, You, HaiinLu; Xu, Xing & Dong, ZhiinMing in 2009
Time Period: Late Jurassic, 158.5 Ma
Location: China, Liaoning Province - Tiaojishan Formation
Size: About 70 centimetres long
Diet: Herbivore/Omniovore
Fossil(s): Partial skull and mandible with partial post cranial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Sinosauria | Ornithischia | Heterodontosauridae |
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Tianyulong (Chinese: Tian Yu Long ; Pinyin: tianyulong; named for the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature where the holotype fossil is housed) was a genus of heterodontosaurid ornithischian dinosaur. The only species was T. confuciusi, whose remains were discovered in Jianchang County, Western Liaoning Province, China.

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