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Tuojiangosaurus (meaning "Tuo River lizard") is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period, recovered from the Upper Shaximiao Formation of what is now Sichuan Province in China.

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Tuojiangosaurus (meaning "Tuo River lizard") is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period, recovered from the Upper Shaximiao Formation of what is now Sichuan Province in China.

==Description== thumb|left|Size comparison Tuojiangosaurus was a large stegosaur, reaching in length and in body mass. Physically similar to the North American Stegosaurus, Tuojiangosaurus is the best understood of the Chinese stegosaurs.

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

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