Yuzhoupliosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Middle Jurassic of China. The genus is known only from a lower jaw, eighteen vertebrae, fragments of a pectoral girdle and parts of the right hindlimb. It is believed this genus lived in fresh water.
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Yuzhoupliosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Middle Jurassic of China. The genus is known only from a lower jaw, eighteen vertebrae, fragments of a pectoral girdle and parts of the right hindlimb. It is believed this genus lived in fresh water.
==Etymology== The genus was named after Yuzhou (渝州), the previous name of Chongqing, a major city on the Yangtze River where the first fossil of Yuzhoupliosaurus was found.
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