Jeholosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Jeholosaurus"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous

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image_caption = "Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis" skeleton reconstruction ("Dinosaurland", Lyme Regis).
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = Cerapoda
infraordo = Ornithopoda
familia = Hypsilophodontidae
genus = "Jeholosaurus"
species = "J. shangyuanensis"
binomial = "Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis"
binomial_authority = Xu "et al", 2000

"Jeholosaurus" is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period. It lived in what is now China and its fossils have been found in the Yixian Formation. It was a hypsilophodont, a primitive ornithopod. Like all ornithopods, it was herbivorous.

The type species, "Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis", was described using two partial skeletons by Xu, Wang and You in 2000.

References

* http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/ornithopoda.htm