Shanxia tianzhenensis Shanxia
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Shanxia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (99–71 Mya)
- Place
- Mexico · China · New Mexico, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
Shanxia (named after the Shanxi Province) is a monospecific genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Shanxi Province that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Campanian, ~99-71 Ma) in what is now the Huiquanpu Formation. Shanxia may possibly represent a junior synonym of Tianzhenosaurus, an ankylosaurine also known from the Huiquanpu Formation of China.
What we know
- Named by Barrett et al., 1998.
- Fossils found in Mexico and China.