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Yinlong
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yinlong (simplified Chinese: 隐龙; traditional Chinese: 隱龍; pinyin: yǐn lóng, meaning "hidden dragon") is a genus of basal ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period of central Asia. By far the earliest known ceratopsian, it was a small, primarily bipedal herbivore.[1][2]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ceratopsia |
Family: | †Chaoyangsauridae |
Genus: | †Yinlong Xu et al., 2006 |
Species: | †Y. downsi |
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†Yinlong downsi Xu et al., 2006 | |
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