Genus
Valid Extinct

Jinyunpelta

Zheng et al. 2018

Jinyunpelta is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurine thyreophoran dinosaur from the Cretaceous Liangtoutang Formation of Jinyun County, Zhejiang, China; it has one species, the type species J. sinensis. This species is the basalmost ankylosaur known to have had a proper tail club.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Jinyunpelta
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Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Parapredentata Unranked clade
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Saphornithischia Unranked clade
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Prionodontia Unranked clade
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Genasauria Unranked clade
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Thyreophora Unranked clade
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Thyreophoroidea Superfamily
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Eurypoda Unranked clade
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Ankylosauria Unranked clade
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Euankylosauria Unranked clade
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Ankylosauridae Family
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Ankylosaurinae Subfamily
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Jinyunpelta Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Liangtoutang
1
Temporal distribution
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Jinyunpelta sinensis 113 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
W.-J. Zheng, X.-S. Jin, and Y. Azuma, Q.-Y. Wang, K. Miyata, X. Xu . 2018. The most basal ankylosaurine dinosaur from the Albian-Cenomanian of China, with implications for the evolution of the tail club. Scientific Reports 8(3711) DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
W.-J. Zheng, X.-S. Jin, and Y. Azuma, Q.-Y. Wang, K. Miyata, X. Xu . 2018. The most basal ankylosaurine dinosaur from the Albian-Cenomanian of China, with implications for the evolution of the tail club. Scientific Reports 8(3711) DOI ↗