Bashanosaurus primitivus Bashanosaurus
"Bashan lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Bashanosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (167.5–164.5 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Huayangosauridae
Bashanosaurus (meaning “Bashan lizard”) is an extinct genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian age) Shaximiao Formation of Yunyang County, China. The genus contains a single species, Bashanosaurus primitivus, known from incomplete skeletons belonging to three individuals. It is one of the basal most stegosaurs, as well as one of the oldest known stegosaurs, along with Adratiklit, Isaberrysaura, and Thyreosaurus.
What we know
- Named by Dai et al., 2022.
- Body length estimated at about 5 m.
- Fossils found in China.