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Tatisaurus
Fossil range: Early Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Sauropsida
Superorder:Dinosauria
Order:Ornithischia
Suborder:Thyreophora
Genus:Tatisaurus
Simmons, 1965
Species


T. oehleri Simmons, 1965 (type)


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.

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 hypsilophodonts, 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]

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. 

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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Sauropsida*
Goodrich, 1916

Subclasses
  • Anapsida
  • Diapsida
Synonyms
  • Reptilia Laurenti, 1768
Reptiles are tetrapods and amniotes, animals whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane, and members of the class
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Dinosauria *
Owen, 1842

Orders & Suborders
  • Ornithischia
  • Cerapoda
  • Thyreophora
  • Saurischia

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Ornithischia
Seeley, 1888

Suborders
  • Cerapoda
  • Thyreophora


Ornithischia or Predentata is an order of beaked, herbivorous dinosaurs.
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Thyreophora
Nopcsa, 1915

Infraorders
  • Ankylosauria
  • Stegosauria


The Thyreophora ("shield bearers", often known simply as "armored dinosaurs" - Greek: θυρεος
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species is one of the basic units of biological classification. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.
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In biology, a type is that which fixes a name to a taxon. Depending on the nomenclature code which is applied to the organism in question, a type may be a specimen, culture, illustration, description or taxon.
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Dinosauria *
Owen, 1842

Orders & Suborders
  • Ornithischia
  • Cerapoda
  • Thyreophora
  • Saurischia

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The Jurassic Period is a major unit of the geologic timescale that extends from about 199.6 ± 0.6 Ma (million years ago) to 145.4 ± 4.0 Ma, the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous.
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云南省
Yúnnán Shěng
Abbreviations: 滇 or ?  (Pinyin: Diān or Yún)

Origin of name 云 yún - cloud
南 nán - south
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Dong Zhiming (1937-, Chinese: 董枝明, Pinyin: Dǒng Zhimíng), from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists.
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Huayangosaurus taibaii
Dong, Tang, and Zhou, 1982

Huayangosaurus was a stegosaurian from Middle Jurassic in China. It derives its name from "Huayang" an alternate name for Sichuan, the province where it was discovered.
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Stegosauria
Marsh, 1877

Families

Huayangosauridae
Stegosauridae

Known colloquially as stegosaurs, the Stegosauria are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Periods, being found mostly in the Northern
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Scelidosauridae
Cope, 1869

Genus: Scelidosaurus

Binomial name
Scelidosaurus harrisonii
Owen, 1859

Scelidosaurus
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Dong Zhiming (1937-, Chinese: 董枝明, Pinyin: Dǒng Zhimíng), from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists.
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