Tianyulong Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Specimen IVPP V17090, muzzle, hand, feet and tail framed in red | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Family: | †Heterodontosauridae |
Genus: | †Tianyulong Zheng et al., 2009 |
Species: | †T. confuciusi
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Binomial name | |
†Tianyulong confuciusi Zheng et al., 2009
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Tianyulong (Chinese: 天宇龍; Pinyin: tiānyǔlóng; named for the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature where the holotype fossil is housed) is an extinct genus of heterodontosaurid ornithischian dinosaur. The only species is T. confuciusi, whose remains were discovered in Jianchang County, Western Liaoning Province, China.[1]
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