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Jiangjunosaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaurs from the Oxfordian-age (Upper Jurassic) Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China.

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Stegosauridae
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Jiangjunosaurus
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  • Discovery and naming
  • Description
  • Phylogeny
  • Paleobiology
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Jiangjunosaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaurs from the Oxfordian-age (Upper Jurassic) Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China.

==Discovery and naming== In 2002, Liu Yongfei discovered the remains of a stegosaurian. These were secured by a Sino-American expedition and prepared by Xiang Lishi and Ding Xiaoqing.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jiangjunosaurus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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