Eomamenchisaurus yuanmouensis Eomamenchisaurus
"dawn"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Eomamenchisaurus 1.2 m (3.8 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1.2 m (3.8 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (174.1–161.2 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Mamenchisauridae
Eomamenchisaurus (meaning “dawn Mamenchisaurus”) is a genus of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Zhanghe Formation of Yuanmou, Yunnan, China. The type species is E. yuanmouensis, described by Lü Junchang and colleagues in 2008.
What we know
- Named by Lü et al., 2008.
- Body length estimated at about 1.16 m.
- Fossils found in China.