Dinosaur
Jinyunpelta
Jinyunpelta’s tail helps trace the history of one of the dinosaurs’ most famous defenses.
Jinyunpelta’s tail helps trace the history of one of the dinosaurs’ most famous defenses. It was a low, armored plant eater with bony plates in its skin and a well-developed tail club. The tail combined a stiff section with a broadened end: a structure more complex than a simple heavy tip.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Jinyunpelta at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- It was a plant eater.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Ankylosauridae
- Ankylosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Zhejiang
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Jinyunpelta
The remains were found in Jinyun, in China’s Zhejiang Province. Several skeletons allowed the skull, armor and tail to be studied, and the genus was described in 2018.
Jinyunpelta matters because it shows a complete tail club in a relatively early ankylosaurid branch. It helps researchers investigate when the different parts of this structure appeared, without assuming they all evolved at once.
Jinyunpelta matters because it shows a complete tail club in a relatively early ankylosaurid branch. It helps researchers investigate when the different parts of this structure appeared, without assuming they all evolved at once.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
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