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Jeholosauridae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Suborder
  
†Ornithopoda

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Family

Clade
  
Dinosauria

Scientific name
  
Jeholosauridae

Higher classification
  
Ornithischia

Order
  
Ornithischia

Jeholosauridae

Similar
  
Dinosaur, Ornithischia, Jeholosaurus, Haya, Koreanosaurus

Jeholosaurids were herbivorous ornithopod dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period (Aptian - Santonian, with a possible Campanian record) of Asia. The family was first proposed by Han et al. in 2012. The jeholosaurids were defined as those ornithischians more closely related to Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis than to Hypsilophodon foxii, Iguanodon bernissartensis, Protoceratops andrewsi, Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis, or Thescelosaurus neglectus. The Jeholosauridae includes the type genus Jeholosaurus and Yueosaurus.

References

Jeholosauridae Wikipedia