Genus
Valid Extinct

Huashanosaurus

Mo et al. 2025

Huashanosaurus is an extinct genus of eusauropod sauropod dinosaurs known from the Early–Middle Jurassic Wangmen Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, Huashanosaurus qini, known from a fragmentary partial skeleton.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Huashanosaurus
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Huashanosaurus is a basal sauropod dinosaur that lived from the Early to Middle Jurassic periods of what is now China. It was a long-necked herbivore which still exhibited many basal traits of the earlier sauropodomorphs, while transitioning to obligate quardupedality. Huashanosaurus grew to approximately 12 m in length, and weighed around 10 t. © TotalDino · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
Huashanosaurus
Huashanosaurus
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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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Huashanosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Wangmen
1
Temporal distribution
Toarcian (184.2–174.7 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Huashanosaurus qini 201 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
J. Mo, X. Zhou, and Q. Fu, D. Xiong, M. Hu, X. Xu. 2025. A new eusauropod dinosaur from the Lower and Middle Jurassic Wangmen Formation of Ningming County, Guangxi, south China. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 99(4):909–924 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
J. Mo, X. Zhou, and Q. Fu, D. Xiong, M. Hu, X. Xu. 2025. A new eusauropod dinosaur from the Lower and Middle Jurassic Wangmen Formation of Ningming County, Guangxi, south China. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 99(4):909–924 DOI ↗