Jingshanosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Jingshanosaurus"

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Sauropodomorpha
infraordo = Prosauropoda
familia =
genus = "Jingshanosaurus"
genus_authority = Zhang and Yang 1995
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subdivision =

"Jingshanosaurus" (meaning "Jingshan lizard") is a genus of prosauropod dinosaurs from the Early Jurassic. Its fossils, a nearly complete skeleton including the skull, were found near the town of Jingshan ["Golden Hill"] , Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, China, from which the name derives. [ [http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/names/dinoj.htm Ben Creisler, "Dinosauria Translation and Pronunciation Guide."] ] First described in 1995, the type species is "J. xinwaensis", formalized by Zhang and Yang.Y. Zhang, and Z. Yang. (1995). "A new complete osteology of Prosauropoda in Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China". Yunnan Publishing House of Science and Technology, Kunming, China 1-100. [Chinese] ] Fossil remains of "Jingshanosaurus" had been exhibited in museums several years prior to the formal naming.

of "Yunnanosaurus".

References

External inks

* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a6b9c1.htm "Jingshanosaurus" in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia] at Dino Russ's Lair
* [http://www.dinodata.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6727&Itemid=67 "Jingshanosaurus"] from DinoData.org