Zhejiangosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Zhejiangosaurus"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = Thyreophora
infraordo = Ankylosauria
familia = Nodosauridae
genus = "Zhejiangosaurus"
genus_authority = Lu, Jin, Sheng, and Li, 2007
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"Z. lishuiensis" Lu "et al"., 2007

"Zhejiangosaurus" (meaning "Zhejiang [Province] lizard") is a genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from the Cenomanian-age Upper Cretaceous Chaochuan Formation of Zhejiang, China.

The type species, "Z. lishuiensis" ("from Lishui", Chinese administrative unit on which the fossil was found), was described by a group of Chinese and Japanese authors led by Lü Junchang in 2007.cite journal |last=Junchang |first=Lu |coauthors=Jin Xingsheng; Sheng Yiming; and Li Yihong |year=2007 |title=New nodosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China |journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English edition) |volume=81 |issue=3 |pages=344–350 ]

Material

Material for "Zhejiangosaurus" consists of the holotype, ZNHM M8718, a partial skeleton which has preserved a sacrum with eight vertebrae, a complete right ilium and partial left ilium, a complete right pubis, the proximal end of the right ischium, two complete hindlimbs, fourteen caudal vertebrae, and some unidentified bones. These remains come from Liancheng, in the Chinese administrative unit of Lishui on the province of Zhejiang.

Systematics

On the species description, Lü "et al." (2007) found "Zhejiangosaurus" to belong to the ankylosaurian family Nodosauridae.

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