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Stegosauridae

Jiangjunosaurus junggarensis

Generic stegosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jiangjunosaurus 6 m (19.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic stegosaur body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Jiangjunosaurus
Length
6 m (19.7 ft)
Period
Late Jurassic (160 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Stegosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Stegosauria Stegosaurus and close relatives.

Jiangjunosaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaurs from the Oxfordian-age (Upper Jurassic) Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China.

What we know

  • Named by Jia et al., 2007.
  • Body length estimated at about 6 m.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Jiangjunosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.