Tatisaurus

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Tatisaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic from the Lower Lufeng Formation in Yunnan Province in China. Little is known as the remains are fragmentary.

[edit] Discovery and species

The type species, Tatisaurus oehleri, was described in 1965 by Simmons^[1], based on only a partial left mandible with teeth. Simmons felt its affinities were with primitive hypilophodonts, though it had some features of an ankylosaur. Later, in 1990. the specimen was reviewed by Dong Zhiming who noted it had similarities with Huayangosaurus and placed it in the same family, hence making it a Stegosaur.

Later still, in 1996, Lucas felt Tatisaurus must have been a member of the genus Scelidosaurus^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ Simmons DJ (1965), The non-therapsid reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China. Field Geol 15; 1-93.
2. ^ Lucas SG. (1996). The thyreophoran dinosaur Scelidosaurus from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation, Yunnan, China. pp. 81-85, in Morales, M. (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60.

• Dong Zhiming (1992). Dinosaurian Faunas of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing. ISBN 3-540-52084-8.

[edit] External link

• http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/stegosauria.htm