Jintasaurus
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| Jintasaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| File:Skeletons of Lanzhousaurus magnidens and Jintasaurus meniscus.JPG | |
| Skeletal mount | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Clade: | †Hadrosauromorpha |
| Genus: | †Jintasaurus You & Li, 2009 |
| Species: | †J. meniscus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Jintasaurus meniscus You & Li, 2009
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Jintasaurus (Chinese: 金塔龙; pinyin: Jīntǎ lóng; meaning "Jinta County dragon") is a genus of hadrosauriform dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous of what is now Jiuquan, Gansu, northwestern China. The type species is J. meniscus, described by Hai-Lu You and Da-Qing Li in 2009. The holotype and only known specimen includes the postorbital skull, lacking the jugal and quadratojugal, whose discovery supports the theory that hadrosaurs originated in Asia.[1]
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