Genus
Valid Extinct

Pulaosaurus

Yang et al. 2025

Pulaosaurus is an extinct genus of neornithischian dinosaur from the mid-Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of Hebei, China. The genus contains a single species, Pulaosaurus qinglong, known from a nearly complete articulated skeleton including the skull and soft tissue impressions. It is one of the only non-avian dinosaurs known to preserve a larynx, suggesting it may have made bird-like vocalizations. Pulaosaurus is the first neornithischian named from the Yanliao Biota, though members of this clade have been known from other fossil beds of the same age for much longer.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Pulaosaurus
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Holotype of Pulaosaurus (IVPP V30936) in left lateral view © Yang, King and Xu (2025) - Photo credit: Hailong Zhang · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Ornithischia Unranked clade
Neornithischia Unranked clade
Pulaosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Tiaojishan
1
Temporal distribution
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Pulaosaurus qinglong 165 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
Y. Yang, J. L. King, and X. Xu. 2025. A new neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of northern China. PeerJ 13(4443):e19664:1-58 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
Y. Yang, J. L. King, and X. Xu. 2025. A new neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of northern China. PeerJ 13(4443):e19664:1-58 DOI ↗