Tianzhenosaurus
Name:
Tianzhenosaurus.
Phonetic: Te-an-zen-oh-sore-us.
Named By: Q. Pang and Z. Cheng - 1998.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Thyreophora, Ankylosauria, Ankylosauridae,
Ankylosaurinae.
Species: T. youngi (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Skull about 28 centimetres long. Body
length estimated about 4 meters long.
Known locations: China, Shanxi Province -
Huiquanpu Formation.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Complete skull and post
cranial skeleton.
Tianzhenosaurus is a genus of relatively small ankylosaurid dinosaur that lived in China during the late Cretaceous, though a specific point of time during the late Cretaceous is unavailable at the time of writing. There has however been speculation that Tianzhenosaurus may actually be synonymous with the genus Saichania.
Further reading
- A new ankylosaur of Late Cretaceous from Tianzhen, Shanxi. -
Progress in Natural Science 8(3):326-334. - Q. Pang and
Z. Cheng - 1998.
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