In Depth
Tienshanosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in China during the late Jurassic. At twelve meters long Tienshanosaurus seems to have been fairly small for a sauropod dinosaur. In the past there has been some confusion concerning the validity of the genus, with the genus Euhelopus being considered to be a synonym by Ralph Molar in 1991, while Val�rie Martin-Rolland named Tienshanosaurus as a species of Euhelopus in 1999. Despite this, at the time of writing both Euhelopus and Tienshanosaurus are both generally considered to be distinct.
Further Reading
- A new dinosaurian from Sinkiang. - Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, Whole Series No. 132 213: 1-29. - C. -C. Young - 1937. - Fossil Reptiles in Australia. - Ralph E. Molnar - In: Editors P. Vickers-Rich, J. M. Monaghan, R. F. Baird and T. H. Rich with the assistance of E. M. Thompson and C. Williams, Vertebrate Palaeontology of Australasia. -1991. - Les sauropodes chinois. - Revue Pal�obiologie, Gen�ve 18(1): 287-315. - Valerie Martin-Rolland - 1999.
