Yuxisaurus kopchicki is a newly-identified dinosaur species which roamed the Earth between 192 and 174 million years ago during the Early Jurassic epoch.
- Its fossilized remains were recovered from the Fengjiahe Formation in China’s Yunnan province.
- It was a type of a thyreophoran, a group of armored dinosaurs that includes Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus.
- It had a heavy build, distinctive spiked armor and numerous unusual features of its skull, particularly with respect to the bones that would have originally surrounded its brain.
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