Bienosaurus

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] References

Dong Zhiming (2001). “Primitive Armored Dinosaur from the Lufeng Basin, China”, Tanke, Darren H. & Carpenter, Kenneth (ed.) Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Indiana University Press, 237-243. ISBN 0-253-33907-3.

[edit] External links

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/indexbi.shtml
• http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/ankylosauria.htm
• http://www.dinosaurier-web.de/galery/pages_b/bienosaurus.html