Genus
Valid Extinct

Daanosaurus

Ye et al. 2005

Daanosaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Jurassic. It lived in what is now China, and was similar to Bellusaurus. Daanosaurus is known only from a partial skeleton of a juvenile, and it has been debated whether the specimen may be a juvenile mamenchisaurid.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Saurischia Unranked clade
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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
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Massopoda Unranked clade
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Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
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Sauropoda Unranked clade
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Gravisauria Unranked clade
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Eusauropoda Unranked clade
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Mamenchisauridae Unranked clade
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Daanosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Shaximiao
1
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Daanosaurus zhangi 155 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
Y. Ye, Y.-H. Gao, and S. Jiang. 2005. A new genus of sauropod from Zigong, Sichuan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 43(3):175-181
Bibliography (1)
Y. Ye, Y.-H. Gao, and S. Jiang. 2005. A new genus of sauropod from Zigong, Sichuan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 43(3):175-181