Tianyulong

Tianyulong Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Ornithischia
Family:	Heterodontosauridae
Genus:	Tianyulong Xiao-Ting Zheng, Hai-Lu You, Xing Xu & Zhi-Ming Dong, 2009
Species
T. confuciusi X.-T. Zheng, H.-L. You, X. Xu & Z.-M. Dong, 2009 (type)

Tianyulong (from the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature where the holotype is housed) is a genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur known to have a row of long filamentous integumentary structures on its back. The only species is T. confuciusi whose remains have been discovery in the Jianchang County, Western Liaoning Province, China and is dated from the Early Cretaceous. The holotype consists in an incomplete skeleton preserving a partial skull and mandible, partial presacral vertebrae, proximal–middle caudal vertebrae, nearly complete right scapula, both humeri, the proximal end of the left ulna, partial pubes, both ischia, both femora, the right tibia and fibula and pes, as well as impressions of long, singular and unbranched filamentous integumentary structures.

Reference

Tianyulong - a fuzzy dinosaur that makes the origin of feathers fuzzier