Bashanosaurus
Name:
Bashanosaurus
(Bashan lizard).
Phonetic: Bash-an-o-sor-us.
Named By: Dai Hui, Li Ning, Susannah C. R.
Maidment,
Wei Guangbiao, Zhou Yuxuan, Hu Xufeng, Ma Qingyu, Wang
Xunqian, Hu Haiqian & Peng Guangzhao - 2022.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Ornithischiam, Thyreophora, Stegosauria.
Species: B. primitivus
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Holotype estimated at 2.8 meters long,
but this is speculated to have been a subadult. Full adult size
possibly larger.
Known locations: China - Yunyang County,
Shaximiao Formation.
Time period: Bajocian of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and post
cranial skeletal remains of more than one individual.
Named
in
2022, Bashanosaurus is one of the oldest
stegosaurid
dinosaurs that
we know about, possibly even older than the previous ‘oldest’
stegosaur Adratiklit.
Unfortunately though there is still some
mystery about Bashanosaurus. The genus is based
upon the partial
remains of more than one individual, and also not from a fully grown
adult. Therefore, information about the appearance and full size of
this dinosaur are still largely speculation.
Further reading
- New Stegosaurs from the
Middle Jurassic Lower Member of the Shaximiao Formation of Chongqing,
China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41 (5) - Dai
Hui, Li Ning, Susannah C. R. Maidment, Wei Guangbiao, Zhou
Yuxuan, Hu Xufeng, Ma Qingyu, Wang Xunqian, Hu Haiqian
&
Peng Guangzhao - 2022.
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