Jiangshanosaurus
Field photograph to come
Jiangshanosaurus
DV-0482
- Lived
- 101 to 90 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Tang et al. 2001
Field notes
About Jiangshanosaurus
Jiangshanosaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 90 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Jiangshanosaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Jinhua Formation. It was named by Tang et al. in 2001.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
95 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Somphospondyli.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. Tang, X.-M. Kang, and Z.-S. Jin, F. Wei, W.-T. Wu. 2001. A new sauropod dinosaur of Cretaceous from Jingshan, Zhejiang province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 39(4):272-281