Genus
Valid Extinct

Sanxiasaurus

Hu Dai et al. 2019

Sanxiasaurus is a genus of neornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Xintiangou Formation in the Chongqing Municipality of China. The type and only species is S. modaoxiensis. The holotype is a partial postcranial skeleton consisting of 55 bones including two cervical vertebrae, 11 dorsal vertebrae, 4 sacral vertebrae, 18 caudal vertebrae, both humeri, radii, and ulnas, partial right ilium, partial right ischium, both femora and tibiae, left fibula, 3 metatarsi and 4 phalanges. In a phylogenetic analysis, it was found to be a basal neornithischian, more derived than Lesothosaurus and less derived than Hexinlusaurus.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Sanxiasaurus
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PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Ornithischia Unranked clade
Neornithischia Unranked clade
Sanxiasaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Xintiangou
1
Temporal distribution
Toarcian (184.2–174.7 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Sanxiasaurus modaoxiensis 184 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
N. L. Hu Dai, C. Tan, and X. Hu, Z. Wei, Y. Lin, G. Wei, D. Li, L. Meng, B. Hao, H. You, G. Peng. 2019. A neornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Xintiangou Formation of Yunyang, Chongqing, China: the earliest record in Asia. Historical Biology DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
N. L. Hu Dai, C. Tan, and X. Hu, Z. Wei, Y. Lin, G. Wei, D. Li, L. Meng, B. Hao, H. You, G. Peng. 2019. A neornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Xintiangou Formation of Yunyang, Chongqing, China: the earliest record in Asia. Historical Biology DOI ↗