Jinyunpelta

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.



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