Yimenosaurus

DV-0337

Lived: 201 to 200 million years ago, Early Jurassic
Diet: Herbivore
Length: about 9 m (30 ft)
Group: Early sauropodomorphs
Found in: China
Named by: Bai et al. 1990

Field notes

About Yimenosaurus

Yimenosaurus was a plant-eating early sauropodomorph that lived in the Early Jurassic, 201 to 200 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Yimenosaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Fengjiahe Formation. It was named by Bai et al. in 1990.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

200 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

To scale

How big was Yimenosaurus?

Yimenosaurus: about 9 m (30 ft) · Person: 1.8 m (6 ft)Silhouette: typical early sauropodomorph shape

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: Z. Bai, J. Yang, and G. Wang. 1990. [Yimenosaurus, a new genus of Prosauropoda from Yimen County, Yunnan province]. Yuxiwenbo (Yuxi Culture and Scholarship) 1:14-23