Daanosaurus zhangi Daanosaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Daanosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (163–145 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Mamenchisauridae
Daanosaurus (meaning “Da’an lizard” after Da’an district in Zigong, Sichuan) was a genus of sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian - Tithonian stage, about 163 - 145 mya). It lived in what is now China (Sichuan Province), and was similar to Bellusaurus. Daanosaurus is known only from a partial skeleton of a juvenile, and it has been debated whether the specimen may be a juvenile mamenchisaurid.
What we know
- Named by Ye, Gao, & Jiang, 2005.
- Fossils found in China.