Tianchisaurus
Tianchisaurus (meaning "heavenly pool lizard"), also invalidly called Tianchiasaurus and "Jurassosaurus", is a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian–Kimmeridgian)-aged Toutunhe Formation of China. If it actually belongs to the family Ankylosauridae as proposed by Dong Zhiming, it would be the second earliest member of that family, being slightly younger than Spicomellus. Unlike other ankylosaurids, it lacked a bony club at the tip of its tail.
| Tianchisaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic, | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Suborder: | †Ankylosauria |
| Genus: | †Tianchisaurus Dong, 1993 |
| Type species | |
| †Tianchisaurus nedegoapeferima Dong, 1993 | |
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