Zhejiangosaurus

Zhejiangosaurus
Temporal occurrence
Upper Cretaceous ( Cenomanium )
100.5 to 93.9 million years
Locations
China
Systematics
Pelvic dinosaur (Ornithischia) Thyreophora Eurypoda Ankylosauria Nodosauridae Zhejiangosaurus
Scientific name
Zhejiangosaurus
Lü , Jin , Sheng & Li , 2007
Art
Z. lishuiensis Lu et al., 2007

Zhejiangosaurus is a little-known genus of pelvic dinosaurs from the ankylosauria group , the remains of which were described in 2007.

features

From Zhejiangosaurus only parts of are far pelvis , the sacrum , the hind limbs and some vertebrae were found. It is likely to have been a relatively large representative of the Nodosauridae group , otherwise nothing is known about the body structure. Like all ankylosaurs, its trunk was probably covered with bone plates (osteoderms), it may have moved quadruped and fed on plants.

Discovery and systematics

The fossil remains of Zhejiangosaurus were discovered in the Chinese province of Zhejiang in the city of Lishui and first described by a Chinese research team in 2007 . The name alludes to the place where it was found, the type and the only known species is Z. lishuiensis . The finds are dated in the early Upper Cretaceous ( Cenomanian ) to an age of around 100 to 94 million years.

According to the first description, Zhejiangosaurus is classified within the Ankylosauria in the group of Nodosauridae.

literature

• Junchang Lü, Xingsheng Jin, Yiming Sheng, Yihong Li, Guoping Wang, Yoichi Azuma: New nodosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China. In: Acta Geologica Sinica. English edition. Vol. 81, No. 3, 2007, ISSN  1000-9515 , pp. 344-350, doi : 10.1111 / j.1755-6724.2007.tb00958.x .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gregory S. Paul : The Princeton Field Guide To Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-13720-9 , p. 236, online .