Yinlong

Yinlong; Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
	Fossil skull
Scientific classification
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
Binomial name
	†Yinlong downsi; Xu et al., 2006

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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