Yizhousaurus
Field photograph to come
Yizhousaurus
DV-1043
- Lived
- 200 to 193 million years ago, Early Jurassic
- Group
- Early sauropodomorphs
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Zhang et al. 2018
Field notes
About Yizhousaurus
Yizhousaurus was an early sauropodomorph that lived in the Early Jurassic, 200 to 193 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Yizhousaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Lufeng Formation. It was named by Zhang et al. in 2018.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
195 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Sauropodiformes.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: Q.-N. Zhang, H.-L. You, and T. Wang, S. Chatterjee. 2018. A new sauropodiform dinosaur with a ‘sauropodan’ skull from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan Province, China. Scientific Reports 8:13464:1-12