天镇龙属(属名:Tianzhenosaurus)是甲龙科的一属,化石发现于中国山西省大同市天镇县的赵家沟村,该地属于灰泉堡组(Huiquanpu Formation),年代为白垩纪晚期。
天镇龙只有一个种,杨氏天镇龙(T. youngi),化石包含一个完整的头颅骨与身体骨骼。天镇龙是种体型中等的甲龙类,头颅骨长度约为 28 公分,身长接近 4 公尺。许多研究人员认为天镇龙其实是美甲龙的次同物异名,但仍未确定。在 2004 年,Vickaryous等人将天镇龙归类于甲龙科,并为绘龙的姐妹分类单元。
参考资料
- Carpenter, K. (ed.) The Armored Dinosaurs. pp. 454–483. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
- Pang, Q and Cheng, Z. 1998. A new ankylosaur of the late Cretaceous from Tianzhen, Shanxi. Progress in Natural Science 8(3):326-334.
- Vickaryous, Maryanska, and Weishampel 2004. Chapter Seventeen: Ankylosauria. in The Dinosauria (2nd edition), Weishampel, D. B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H., editors. University of California Press.
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