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Bienosaurus (meaning "Bien's lizard") was a dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. The genus was an armored dinosaur from the Lower Lufeng Formation in Yunnan Province in China.

Discovery and species[]

The discoverer and person who first described the specimen was Dong Zhiming in 2001, based on a right lower jaw and teeth. Other known material includes a nearly complete right mandibular ramus with teeth and several cranial fragments. The type species is B. lufengensis. It is believed to share close affinities with Scelidosaurus.

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