Jeholosaurus
jeh-HOLE-oh-SORE-us /dʒɛˌhoʊloʊˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Jehol lizard
- Jehol · Chinese (place name) · Rehe, the historical province/region (Jehol) where the fossils were found
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name means "Jehol lizard". It refers to the Jehol region (Rehe) of northeastern China, where the fossils were found in the Yixian Formation, famous for the Jehol Biota. The Greek "sauros" (lizard) is the standard dinosaur suffix.
- Named by
- Xu, Wang and You
- Year named
- 2000
- Period
- Early Cretaceous
- Stage
- Aptian
- Found in
- Yixian Formation, Liaoning Province, China
A small, bipedal herbivorous ornithischian, generally considered a basal neornithischian (often placed near the base of Cerapoda). The type species is Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis.