Qianjiangsaurus
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Qianjiangsaurus
DV-1287 · type species Qianjiangsaurus changshengi
- Lived
- 101 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Dai et al. 2025
Field notes
About Qianjiangsaurus
Qianjiangsaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Qianjiangsaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Zhengyang Formation. It was named by Dai et al. in 2025.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H. Dai, Q. Ma, and C. Xiong, Y. Lin, H. Zeng, C. Tan, J. Wang, Y. Zhang, H. Xing. 2025. A new late-diverging non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from southwest China: Support for interchange of dinosaur faunas across East Asia during the Late Cretaceous. Cretaceous Research 166(78):105995