Jinzhousaurus postcranial skeleton described

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From: Ben Creisler
bh480@scn.org

In case it's not been mentioned yet:

Xiaolin Wang, Rui Pan, Richard J. Butler and Paul M. 
Barrett (2011)
The postcranial skeleton of the iguanodontian ornithopod 
Jinzhousaurus yangi from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian 
Formation of western Liaoning, China.
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal 
Society of Edinburgh 101(2):135-159 
DOI: 10.1017/S1755691010009266 
Published online: 11 Feb 2011 
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Abstract

Non-hadrosaurid iguanodontians were the most diverse and 
abundant group of large-bodied herbivorous dinosaurs 
during the Early Cretaceous, and were a particularly 
important component of Laurasian ecosystems. Recent years 
have seen a dramatic increase in our knowledge of the 
diversity of this group, with multiple new taxa being 
described from northeast China. The most complete of 
these Chinese non-hadrosaurid iguanodontians is 
Jinzhousaurus yangi, from the middle part of the Yixian 
Formation (Lower Cretaceous: lower Aptian) of Liaoning 
Province. Here, we provide the first description of the 
relatively complete and partially articulated postcranial 
skeleton of the holotype of Jinzhousaurus, and provide 
detailed comparisons to closely related taxa. We document 
additional autapomorphies of Jinzhousaurus that provide 
strong support for the validity of this taxon.