FUSHANOSAURUS
a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China.
Pronunciation: foo-SHAN-o-SOR-us
Meaning: Fushan lizard
Author/s: Wang
et al. (
2019)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Xinjiang, China
Discovery Chart Position: #1012
Fushanosaurus qitaiensis
(Fushan Lizard from Qitai)Etymology
Fushanosaurus is derived from "Fushan" (for the Fushan Museum where its fossils are housed) and the Greek "sauros" (lizard).
The
species epithet,
qitaiensis, means "from Qitai" in Latin.
Discovery
The remains of
Fushanosaurus were discovered in the Shishugou Formation, in the Qitai area of Junggar basin, Xinjiang Province, China.
The
holotype (FH000101) is a right thigh bone (180 centimetres long).
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian
Age range: 161-156 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Wang X-R, Wu W-H, Li T, Ji Q, Li Y-X and Guo J-F (2019) "A new titanosauriform dinosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from Late Jurassic of Junggar Basin, Xinjiang".
Global Geology, 38(3): 581–588. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-5589.2019.03.001.
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