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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	90117	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=90117

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Chaoyangsauridae : Yinlong

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Ornithischia
-	Neornithischia
-	Clypeodonta	Norman 2014
-	Cerapoda	Sereno 1986
-	Marginocephalia	Sereno 1986
-	Ceratopsia
infraorder	Neoceratopsia	Sereno 1986
family	Chaoyangsauridae
genus	Yinlong	Xu et al. 2006

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Yinlong	genus	belongs to Ceratopsia	stated without evidence	Xu et al., 2006
Yinlong	genus	belongs to Neoceratopsia	stated without evidence	Butler et al., 2007
Yinlong	genus	belongs to Ceratopsia	stated with evidence	Han et al., 2012
Yinlong	genus	belongs to Chaoyangsauridae	stated with evidence	Han et al., 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

164 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

164 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Ceratopsia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ornithischia)

Diet

herbivore (based on Ceratopsia)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

X. Xu, C. A. Forster, and J. M. Clark, J. Mo. 2006. A basal ceratopsian with transitional features from the Late Jurassic of northwestern China. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 273:2135-2140

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Yinlong downsi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
2006	Yinlong Xu et al. p. 2135
2007	Yinlong Butler et al. p. S19 fig. S2
2012	Yinlong Han et al. p. 1391 fig. 14
2015	Yinlong Han et al. p. 19 fig. 10
2015	Yinlong Zheng et al. p. 6 fig. 3
2019	Yinlong Morschhauser et al. p. 129 fig. 10

References

Xu X., Forster C. A., et al (2006) A basal ceratopsian with transitional features from the Late Jurassic of northwestern China, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 273, 2135-2140

Butler R. J., Smith R. M. H., et al (2007) A primitive ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, and the early evolution and diversification of Ornithischia, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274, 2041-2046

Han F.-L., Barrett P. M., et al (2012) Postcranial anatomy of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 6, 1370-1395 doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694385

Han F., Forster C. A., et al (2015) A new taxon of basal ceratopsian from China and the early evolution of Ceratopsia, PLoS ONE 10 12, e0143369:1-23

Zheng W., Jin X., et al (2015) A psittacosaurid-like basal neoceratopsian from the Upper Cretaceous of central China and its implications for basal ceratopsian evolution, Scientific Reports 5, 14190:1-9 doi:10.1038/srep14190

Morschhauser E. M., You H., et al (2019) Phylogenetic history of Auroraceratops rugosus (Ceratopsia: Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Gansu Province, China, Auroraceratops rugosus (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern Gansu Province, China. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 18. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38 supplement, 117-147 doi:10.1080/02724634.2018.1509866

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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