Yanbeilong
| Yanbeilong Temporal range:
Early Cretaceous, | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Stegosauria |
| Family: | †Stegosauridae |
| Genus: | †Yanbeilong Jia et al., 2024 |
| Species: | †Y. ultimus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Yanbeilong ultimus Jia et al., 2024
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Yanbeilong (meaning "north of Yanmen Pass dragon") is an extinct genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Zuoyun Formation of Shanxi, China. The type and only species is Y. ultimus.[1] It is considered one of the youngest definitive records of the group, alongside Mongolostegus from Aptian–Albian Mongolia and possible Stegosaurus remains from the Hekou Group of China, also dating to the Aptian–Albian.[2][3]
Classification
Jia (2024) recovered Yanbeilong as a deeply-nested member of the Stegosauria, as the sister taxon to a clade containing Stegosaurus stenops and Wuerhosaurus. The results of their phylogenetic analyses are shown in the cladogram below:[1]
References
- ^ a b Jia, Lei; Li, Ning; Dong, Liyang; Shi, Jianru; Kang, Zhishuai; Wang, Suozhu; Xu, Shichao; You, Hailu (2024-01-31). "A new stegosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Zuoyun, Shanxi Province, China". Historical Biology: 1–10. doi:10.1080/08912963.2024.2308214. ISSN 0891-2963.
- ^ Tumanova, T. A.; Alifanov, V. R. (2018-12-01). "First Record of Stegosaur (Ornithischia, Dinosauria) from the Aptian–Albian of Mongolia". Paleontological Journal. 52 (14): 1771–1779. doi:10.1134/S0031030118140186. ISSN 1555-6174. S2CID 91559457.
- ^ Li, Ning; Li, Daqing; Peng, Guangzhao; You, Hailu (2024). "The first stegosaurian dinosaur from Gansu Province, China". Cretaceous Research (in press). 105852. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105852.
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