Sanxiasaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-1079Xintiangou Fm., China

Sanxiasaurus

DV-1079

Lived
184 to 171 million years ago, Early Jurassic to Middle Jurassic
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Early ornithischians
Found in
China
Named by
Hu Dai et al. 2019

Field notes

About Sanxiasaurus

Sanxiasaurus was a plant-eating early ornithischian that lived in the Early Jurassic to Middle Jurassic, 184 to 171 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Sanxiasaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Xintiangou Formation. It was named by Hu Dai et al. in 2019.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

180 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Neornithischia.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: N. L. Hu Dai, C. Tan, and X. Hu, Z. Wei, Y. Lin, G. Wei, D. Li, L. Meng, B. Hao, H. You, G. Peng. 2019. A neornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Xintiangou Formation of Yunyang, Chongqing, China: the earliest record in Asia. Historical Biology