Genus
Valid Extinct

Gongbusaurus

Dong et al. 1983

Gongbusaurus is a genus of ornithischian, perhaps ornithopod, dinosaur that lived between about 160 and 157 million years ago, in the Late Jurassic period. A small herbivore, it is very poorly known. Two species have been assigned to it, but as the original name is based on teeth, there is no concrete evidence to connect the two species. Its fossils have been found in China.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
5
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Gongbusaurus
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Gongbusaurus wucaiwanensis. (IVPP 14559). © Zhiheng Li, Zhonghe Zhou, Julia A. Clarke · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Fabrosauridae Family
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Gongbusaurus Genus
Fossil sites 5 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
5
Geological formations
Shishugou
4
Shaximiao
1
Temporal distribution
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
4
Callovian (165.3–161.5 Ma)
1
Species (2)
Gongbusaurus shiyii 168 Ma
Gongbusaurus wucaiwanensis 165 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
Z. Dong, S. Zhou, and H. Zhang. 1983. [Dinosaurs from the Jurassic of Sichuan]. Palaeontologica Sinica, New Series C, Whole Number 162(23):1-136
Bibliography (2)
Z. Dong. 1989. On a small ornithopod (Gongbusaurus wucaiwanensis sp. nov.) from Kelamaili, Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 27(2):140-146
Z. Dong, S. Zhou, and H. Zhang. 1983. [Dinosaurs from the Jurassic of Sichuan]. Palaeontologica Sinica, New Series C, Whole Number 162(23):1-136