Jiangjunosaurus

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Jiangjunosaurus
Fossil range: Late Jurassic
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Thyreophora
Infraorder: Stegosauria
Family: Stegosauridae
Genus: Jiangjunosaurus
Chengkai, Forster, Xing, and Clark, 2007
Species
  • J. junggarensis Chengkai et al., 2007

Jiangjunosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Oxfordian-age (Upper Jurassic) Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China. Remains including the lower jaw, some skull bones, eleven articulated neck vertebrae, and two plates are known. The type species, J. junggarensis, was described by Chengkai et al. in 2007.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Chengkai, Jia; Forster, Catherine A; Xing, Xu; and Clark, James M. (2007). "The first stegosaur (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Jurassic Shishugou Formation of Xinjiang, China". Acta Geologica Sinica (English edition) 81 (3): 351–356. 
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