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YANDUSAURUS
(yan-du-sor-us)
meaning: "Yandu lizard - Yandu is the old name for Zigong, a city in Sichuan Province, China"
Named By: X. He in 1979
Time Period: Middle Jurassic, Bathonian
Location: China, Sichuan Province - Lower Shaximiao Formation
Size: At least three meters long for the holotype, possibly as much as somewhere between 3.5 and 4 meters
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Skull and partial post cranial skeleton
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda |
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Yandusaurus is a genus of herbivorous basal euornithopod dinosaur from the Bathonian age (middle Jurassic, approximately 169 to 163 Ma) of China.

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