Chinshakiangosaurus chunghoensis
"Chinshakiang lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Chinshakiangosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Jurassic (201–174 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Chinshakiangosaurus (JIN-shah-jiahng-uh-SOR-us, meaning “Chinshakiang lizard”) is a genus of basal sauropod dinosaur. The only species, Chinshakiangosaurus chunghoensis, is known from a fragmentary skeleton found in Early Jurassic rocks in China. It is one of the few basal sauropods with preserved skull bones and therefore important for the understanding of the early evolution of this group, and also shows that early sauropods may have possessed fleshy cheeks.
What we know
- Named by Dong, 1992.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Chinshakiangosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.