QIANJIANGSAURUS
a type of hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China.
Pronunciation: chYen-jYahng-SOR-us
Meaning: Qianjiang lizard
Author/s: Dai
et al. (
2024)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Chongqing, China
Discovery Chart Position: #1141
Qianjiangsaurus changshengi
(Changsheng's Qianjiang Lizard)Etymology
Qianjiangsaurus is derived from "Qianjiang" (the district in which it was found) and the Greek "sauros" (lizard).
The
species epithet,
changshengi, honours Changsheng Wang who discovered the Zhengyang fossil locality.
ZooBank registry:
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B2360617-519C-4B54-A074-A65B6208277A.
Discovery
The remains of
Qianjiangsaurus were discovered in the Zhengyang Formation, Qianjiang District, Chongqing Municipality, southwest China, by the No. 208 Hydrogeological and Engineering Geological Team of the Chongqing Bureau of Geological and Mineral Resource Exploration and Development, during the winter of 2022.
The
holotype (CLGRP V00016) is a partial skeleton, consisting of a lower jaw, four back vertebrae, numerous tail vertebrae and chevrons, most of the pelvic girdle including the sacrum (a block of fused vertebrae), and several hindlimb bones.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian?
Age range: 84-72?
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
Qianjiangsaurus
changshengi
References
• Mo J, Zhao Z, Wang W and Xu X (2007) "The first hadrosaurid dinosaur from southern China".
Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 81(4): 550–554. DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2007.tb00978.x.
• Dai H, Ma Q, Xiong C, Lin Y, Zeng H, Tan C, Wang J, Zhang Y and Xing H (2024) "A new late-diverging non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from southwest China: support for interchange of dinosaur faunas across East Asia during the Late Cretaceous".
Cretaceous Research: 105995.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105995.
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