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Equijubus

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Quick Facts
Name	Equijubus
Diet	Herbivore
Weight	2500 kilos
Length	7 meters
Height
Period	Early Cretaceous

Equijubus was a genus of herbivorous hadrosauroid dinosaurs that lived in the Early Cretaceous of northwestern China. It was discovered in the summer of 2000 by a Sino-American expedition in Mazong and named and described by You Hialu in 2002.

It is a relatively large euornithopod, about seven meters and 2.5 tons. It walked on four legs and was herbivorous. Like any other dinosaur, it reproduced by laying eggs. Apart from that, there is very little information about them.

What did Equijubus eat?

Equijubus was a plant-eating dinosaur that probably fed on grasses.

When was the Equijubus found?

It was discovered in the summer of 2000 by a Sino-American expedition in Mazong and named and described by You Hialu in 2002.

What does Equijubus mean?

The name means "horse mane" in reference to the Mǎzōng Mountain 马鬃山 area in which it was found.

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References

Paul, G.S., 2010, The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, Princeton University Press p. 286
You, Luo, Shubin, Witmer, Tang and Tang (2003). "The earliest-known duck-billed dinosaur from deposits of late Early Cretacous age in northwest China and hadrosaurid evolution." Cretaceous Research, 24: 347-353.
Yan Wu; Hai-Lu You; Xiao-Qiang Li 2017. "Dinosaur-associated Poaceae epidermis and phytoliths from the Early Cretaceous of China", National Science Review.
Gregory S. Paul, A revised taxonomy of the iguanodont dinosaur genera and species, Cretaceous Research (2007), doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2007.04.009.
P. Cruzado-Caballero and J. E. Powell. 2017. Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis, a new hadrosaurine dinosaur from South America: implications for phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships with North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(2):e1289381:1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano].

Fun Facts

Equijubus was a genus of herbivorous hadrosauroid dinosaurs.
It stood on four legs.
It was a herbivore.
The name means "horse mane" in reference to the Mǎzōng Mountain 马鬃山 area in which it was found.