Bienosaurus

Bienosaurus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Thyreophora
Infraorder: Ankylosauria
Family: Scelidosauridae
Genus: Bienosaurus
Species: B. lufengensis
Binomial name
Bienosaurus lufengensis
Dong, 2001

Bienosaurus (meaning "Bien's lizard") was a dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (probably Sinemurian). The genus was an armoured dinosaur from the Lower Lufeng Formation in Yunnan Province in China.

Discovery and species

In 1938, Bian Meinian discovered a fragmentary dinosaur skull. In 2001, Dong Zhiming named and described the specimen, based on a right lower jaw and teeth. Other known material includes a nearly complete right mandibular ramus with teeth and several cranial fragments. The type species is B. lufengensis. It is believed to share close affinities with Scelidosaurus.

See also

References

Dong Zhiming (2001). "Primitive Armored Dinosaur from the Lufeng Basin, China". In Tanke, Darren H.; Carpenter, Kenneth. Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Indiana University Press. pp. 237–243. ISBN 0-253-33907-3. 

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