Jiangshanosaurus
Sign in to saveJiangshanosaurus is a genus of herbivorous titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived in China approximately 92-88 million years ago, during the Turonian and Coniacian stages of the Late Cretaceous.
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It sits within the topics Dinosaur genera, Dinosaurs of China and Fossil taxa described in 2001.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent taxon
- Euhelopodidae
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- Jiangshanosaurus lixianensis zmnh006.JPG
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- Phylogeny
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Jiangshanosaurus is a genus of herbivorous titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived in China approximately 92-88 million years ago, during the Turonian and Coniacian stages of the Late Cretaceous.
==Discovery and naming== thumb|left|Closer view of body In 1977 and 1978 a sauropod skeleton was excavated by paleontologists Wei Feng, Wu Weitang and Kang Ximin in the Jinhua Formation of Lixian Village, Jiangshan county, in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang.
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