Dinosaurs · Large ornithopod

Jinzhousaurus

Say it jeen-joh-sore-us. The name means ‘Jinzhou lizard’.

No length given in the museum's record.

The museum gives no length for this dinosaur, so we cannot draw it to scale.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of large ornithopods

Diet: Plant-eater
When: Early Cretaceous127 to 121 million years ago
Fossils found in: China
Named by: Wang and Xu (2001)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ornithopoda › Euornithopoda › Iguanadontia › Euiguanadontia › Dryomorpha › Ankylopollexia › Iguanodontoidea

Where Jinzhousaurus sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Large ornithopods. Big plant-eaters that walked on two or four legs, including the duck-billed dinosaurs. See all 36

Lived at the same time

Beipiaosaurus · same country
Confuciusornis · same country
Equijubus · same country
Liaoceratops · same country
Sinovenator · same country
Caudipteryx · same country
Sinosauropteryx · same country
Protarchaeopteryx · same country

Other large ornithopods

Equijubus Early Cretaceous
Fukuisaurus Early Cretaceous
Lurdusaurus Early Cretaceous
Probactrosaurus Early Cretaceous
Tenontosaurus Early Cretaceous
Ouranosaurus Early Cretaceous
Iguanodon Early Cretaceous
Muttaburrasaurus Early Cretaceous

Source: Jinzhousaurus in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.