Bienosaurus

Taxobox|
name = "Bienosaurus"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Early Jurassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = Thyreophora
infraordo = Ankylosauria
familia = Scelidosauridae
genus = "Bienosaurus"
species = "B. lufengensis"
binomial = "Bienosaurus lufengensis"
binomial_authority = Dong, 2001

"Bienosaurus" (meaning "Bien's lizard") was a dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. The genus was a armored dinosaur from the Lower Lufeng Formation in Yunnan Province in China.

Discovery and species

The discoverer and person who first described the specimen was Dong Zhiming in 2001, based on a right lower jaw and teeth. Other known material includes a nearly complete right mandibular ramus with teeth and several cranial fragments. The type species is "B. lufengensis".

References

External links

* [http://www.dinodata.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6138&Itemid=67 "Bienosaurus"] at DinoData
* [http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/ankylosauria.htm "Thescelosaurus"!] on "Bienosaurus".
* [http://www.dinosaurier-web.de/galery/pages_b/bienosaurus.html Fact sheet, in German]