Genus
Valid Extinct

Yizhousaurus

Zhang et al. 2018

Yizhousaurus is a genus of basal sauropodiform dinosaurs which existed in what is now Lufeng Formation, Yunnan Province of southern China during the lower Jurassic period. Identified from a nearly complete and exquisitely preserved skeleton, it is the most complete basal sauropod currently known with intact skull. Although its name was revealed in a 2010 Geological Society of America abstract by Sankar Chatterjee, T. Wang, S.G. Pan, Z. Dong, X.C. Wu, and Paul Upchurch, it wasn't validly named and described until 2018. The type species is Yizhousaurus sunae.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Terrestrial
Yizhousaurus
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Yizhousaurus sunae skull and jaw © Zhang, Qian-Nan; You, Hai-Lu; Wang, Tao; Chatterjee, Sankar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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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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Yizhousaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Lufeng
1
Temporal distribution
Sinemurian (199.5–192.9 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Yizhousaurus sunae 200 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
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 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
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 DOI ↗