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BASHUNOSAURUS

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Meaning:
Author/s: Kuang (2004)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Kaijiang, China
Discovery Chart Position: #535

Bashunosaurus kaijiangensis

Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Middle Jurassic
Stage: Bathonian-Callovian
Age range: 166-162 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: 12 meters
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Hui O (1989) "A new sauropod from Dashanpu, Zigong Co. Sichuan Province (Abrosaurus dongpoensis gen. et sp. nov.)". Zigong Dinosaur Museum Newsletter, 2: 10-14
• Li K, Zhang Y and Cai K (1999) "The Characteristics of the Composition of the Trace Elements in Jurassic Dinosaur Bones and Red Beds in Sichuan Basin". Geological Publishing House, Beijing.
• Kuang XW (2004) "A new Sauropoda from Kaijiang dinosaur fauna in middle Jurassic beds of North-Eastern Sichuan". Page 40-46 in Sun (ed.) "Collection of the 90th anniversary of Tianjin museum of natural history". Tianjin Science and Technology Press.
• Molina-Perez R and Larramendi A (2020) "Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: The Sauropods" [aka Dinosaur Facts and Figures: The Sauropods and Other Sauropodomorphs].
• Dai H, Tan C, Xiong C, Ma Q, Li N, Yu H, Wei Z, Wang P, Yi J, Wei G, You H and Ren X (2022) "New macronarian from the Middle Jurassic of Chongqing, China: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for neosauropod dinosaur evolution". Royal Society Open Science, 9(11). 220794. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.220794
• Ren XX, Jiang S, Wang XR, Peng GZ, Ye Y, Jia L and You HL (2022) "Re-examination of Dashanpusaurus dongi (Sauropoda: Macronaria) supports an early Middle Jurassic global distribution of neosauropod dinosaurs". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 111318. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111318
• Sassani N (2022) "The identity of Bashunosaurus revealed". sauropoda.blogspot.com.
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Atkinson, L. "BASHUNOSAURUS :: from DinoChecker's dinosaur archive".
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