Cretaceous-Period Armored Dinosaur Had Double Cheek Horns

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Feb 26, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Named Datai yingliangis, the newly-discovered dinosaur species roamed Earth during the Late Cretaceous epoch, around 96-90 million years ago.
The ancient beast was a member of Ankylosauria, a group of armored dinosaurs with a tail club that reached the pinnacle of diversity in the latest Cretaceous period.

“Ankylosaurines are the iconic armored dinosaurs that characterize terrestrial vertebrate faunas in the Late Cretaceous of Asia and Laramidia (western North America),” said China University of Geosciences paleontologist Lida Xing and colleagues.

“The earliest members of this clade are known from the early Late Cretaceous times of Asia, but little consensus has emerged as to how they are related to the anatomically derived and chronologically younger forms.”

“In southeastern China, the Cretaceous red sand beds crop out across basins from Zhejiang to Guandong provinces.”

More:
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/datai-yingliangis-12721.html

- click link below for image of this armored dinosur -

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