Eugongbusaurus

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"Eugongbusaurus" is the informal name (nomen nudum) given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It was either a hypsilophodont, or a less-derived ornithischian. Its fossils were found in China.

The "type" species, "Eugongbusaurus wucaiwanensis", was described on the basis of a partial skeleton (as a second species of the poorly known tooth taxon Gongbusaurus) in 1989 by Dong, and redescribed (as "Eugongbusaurus") in 1999 by Knoll. Although it has not been officially renamed, other paleontologists (Norman et al., 2004) agree that it warrants its own genus.

[edit] References

• Norman, D.B., Sues, H.-D., Witmer, L.M., and Coria, R.A. 2004. Basal Ornithopoda, in: Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H., (eds), The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press:Berkeley, 392-412.
• See entry on "Eugongbusasaurus" at DinoData (registration required, free)