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Yinlong
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The earliest known ceratopsian, showing features of ceratopsians, pachycephalosaurians and heterodontosaurids.
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- Pronounced
- yin-long
- Meaning of name
- hidden dragon
- Length
- about 1.2m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Mid Jurassic
(159 - 154 million years ago) - Found in
- Peoples Republic of China
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Yinlong
- Named by
- Xu, Forster, Clark and Mo (2006)
- Type species
- downsi