Huashanosaurus qini
"Huashan Mountain lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Huashanosaurus 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.
Huashanosaurus (meaning “Huashan Mountain lizard”) is an extinct genus of eusauropod sauropod dinosaurs known from the Early–Middle Jurassic Wangmen Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, Huashanosaurus qini, known from a fragmentary partial skeleton.
What we know
- Named by Mo et al., 2025.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Huashanosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.