In Depth
First discovered in 1998 when a road construction uncovered the remains, it took a team of palaeontologists all the way to 2012 to publish a description about this dinosaur. Yueosaurus is regarded as being a basal ornithopod dinosaur, the fifth known from Asia and the most Southern at the time of its discovery. This has allowed for a broader understanding of the distribution of these types of dinosaurs in Asia.
Further Reading
– A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Liangtoutang Formation of Tiantai, Zhejiang Province, China. – Cretaceous Research 34:208-219. – W. Zheng, X. Jin, M. Shibata, Y. Azuma, and F.-M. Yu. – 2012.
