Yizhousaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-1043Lufeng Fm., China

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

1 find

195 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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