Name:
Jinyunpelta
(Jinyun shield).
Phonetic: Jin-yun-pelt-ah.
Named By: Zheng Wenjie, Jin Xingsheng, Yoichi
Azuma, Wang Qiongying, Kazunori Miyata & Xu Xing -
2018.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ankylosauridae, Ankylosaurinae.
Species: J. sinensis (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: China, Zhejiang -
Liangtoutang Formation.
Time period: Albian/Cenomanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial skeleton.
Jinyunpelta
is a genus of ankylosaurid
dinosaur that lived in Asia around the
early/late Cretaceous boundary. The presence of Jinyunpelta
at that
time suggests that it was among the first ankylosaurid dinosaur genera
to have evolved a tail club.
Further reading
- The most basal ankylosaurine dinosaur from the Albian-Cenomanian of
China, with implications for the evolution of the tail club. -
Scientific Reports 8(3711). - Zheng Wenjie, Jin
Xingsheng, Yoichi Azuma, Wang Qiongying, Kazunori Miyata
& Xu Xing - 2018.