Name
Yizhousaurus (Yizhou lizard).
Phonetic
Ye-zu-sor-us.
Named By
Qian-Nan Zhang , Hai-Lu You, Tao Wang & Sanker Chatterjee - 2018.
Classification
Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda.
Diet
Herbivore.
Species
Y. sunae
Size
Roughly about 7 meters long for the holotype.
Known locations
China, Yunnan Province - Lufeng Formation.
Time Period
Early Jurassic.
Fossil representation
Skull and partial post cranial skeleton, including most vertebrae from the neck, back pelvis and first few vertebrae of the tail, pelvis, thigh bones, shoulder girdle and fore limbs.
Yizhousaurus is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in Asia during the early Jurassic, and is a rare example of such a dinosaur where the skull is known, and in an almost perfect state.
- A new sauropodiform dinosaur with a ‘sauropodan’ skull from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan Province, China. - Scientific Reports. 8. - Qian-Nan Zhang , Hai-Lu You, Tao Wang & Sanker Chatterjee - 2018.
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