Dinosaurs, Liaoning Province, China
Jeholosaurus skeleton
Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis
A complete skeleton of a metre-long runner from the famous Jehol biota.
10 000 000 ₽ · By order
- Epoch
- Cretaceous period
- Age
- ≈ 125 Mya
- Origin
- Liaoning Province, China
- Size
- 70 cm
- Classification
- Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis, early ornithopods
- Habitat
- Humid Early Cretaceous forests, Yixian Formation
- Ref.
- R–0643
In the Early Cretaceous, ginkgoes and conifers with a fern undergrowth grew where Liaoning is now, and volcanic ash from time to time covered everything living and turned it into record. It is to this ash that we owe the famous preservation of the Jehol biota.
Jeholosaurus was a small bipedal herbivorous dinosaur about a metre long, one of the early ornithopods. A small skull with a beak and leaf-shaped teeth, a compact body, long hind legs and a very long counterbalancing tail: the build of a runner, not a fighter.
This specimen is complete: skull, vertebral column with long tail, ribs, both pairs of limbs with elongated feet. The skeleton stands mid-stride, head raised, on an oval stone base.