Tianyulong Zheng et al. 2009 (ornithischian)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: X.-T. Zheng, H.-L. You, X. Xu and Z.-M. Dong. 2009. An Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid dinosaur with filamentous integumentary structures. Nature 458:333-336

Parent taxon: Pachycephalosauria according to P.-E. Dieudonné et al. 2020

See also Han et al. 2012, Hübner 2016, Madzia et al. 2018, Sereno 2012, Zheng et al. 2009 and Zhou and Wang 2017

Sister taxa: Eupachycephalosauria, Goyocephale, Goyocephalia, Homalocephalidae, Pachycephalosauridae, Pachycephalosauroidea, Qiyunshanpus, Tianchungosauroidea, Wannanosaurus

Subtaxa: Tianyulong confuciusi

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Daxishan, Linglongta (Jurassic of China)

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