Zhejiangosaurus (meaning "Zhejiang lizard") is an extinct genus of dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian stage) of Zhejiang, eastern China. It was first named by a group of Chinese authors Lü Junchang, Jin Xingsheng, Sheng Yiming and Li Yihong in 2007 and the type species is Zhejiangosaurus lishuiensis ("from Lishui", where the fossil was found).
Description
Zhejiangosaurus could grow up to 4.5 m (17 ft) in length and was 1.4 metric tons in weight.
Material
Material for
Zhejiangosaurus consists of the
holotype, ZNHM M8718, a partial skeleton which has preserved a
sacrum with eight
, a complete right ilium and partial left ilium, a complete right pubis, the proximal end of the right
ischium, two complete hindlimbs, fourteen
tail , and some unidentified bones. These remains come from Liancheng, in the Chinese administrative unit of Lishui on the province of Zhejiang and they were collected from the
Cenomanian-age Chaochuan Formation.
Systematics
On the species description, Lü
et al. (2007) found
Zhejiangosaurus to belong to the
family Nodosauridae.
Zhejiangosaurus in a cladogram after Pond et al. (2023):
See also
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Timeline of ankylosaur research
