Jiangshanosaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0482Jinhua Fm., China

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

1 find

95 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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