Huashanosaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-1276Wangmen Fm., China

Huashanosaurus

DV-1276 · type species Huashanosaurus qini

Lived
201 to 162 million years ago, Early Jurassic to Middle Jurassic
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Sauropods
Found in
China
Named by
Mo et al. 2025

Field notes

About Huashanosaurus

Huashanosaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Jurassic to Middle Jurassic, 201 to 162 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Huashanosaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Wangmen Formation. It was named by Mo et al. in 2025.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

180 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Close relatives

Other members of Eusauropoda.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. Mo, X. Zhou, and Q. Fu, D. Xiong, M. Hu, X. Xu. 2025. A new eusauropod dinosaur from the Lower and Middle Jurassic Wangmen Formation of Ningming County, Guangxi, south China. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 99(4):909–924