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YINLONG
(yin-long)
meaning: "Hidden dragon"
Yinlong
Named By: Xu Xing et al. in 2006
Time Period: Late Jurassic, 158 Ma
Location: China, Xinjiang Province - Shishugou Formation
Size: 1.2 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Single skeleton that is very well preserved
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Marginocephalia | Ceratopsia |
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Yinlong (Yin Long , meaning "hidden dragon") is a genus of basal ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period of central Asia. It was a small, primarily bipedal herbivore. Yinlong is the oldest and most primitive ceratopsian known.

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