Zhejiangosaurus

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Zhejiangosaurus Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Ornithischia Suborder: Thyreophora Infraorder: Ankylosauria Family: Nodosauridae Genus: Zhejiangosaurus Lu, Jin, Sheng, and Li, 2007
Species
Z. lishuiensis Lu et al., 2007

Zhejiangosaurus (meaning "Zhejiang [Province] lizard") is a genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from the Cenomanian-age Upper Cretaceous Chaochuan Formation of Zhejiang, China.

The type species, Z. lishuiensis ("from Lishui", Chinese administrative unit on which the fossil was found), was described by a group of Chinese and Japanese authors led by Lü Junchang in 2007.^[1]

[edit] Material

Material for Zhejiangosaurus consists of the holotype, ZNHM M8718, a partial skeleton which has preserved a sacrum with eight vertebrae, a complete right ilium and partial left ilium, a complete right pubis, the proximal end of the right ischium, two complete hindlimbs, fourteen caudal vertebrae, and some unidentified bones. These remains come from Liancheng, in the Chinese administrative unit of Lishui on the province of Zhejiang.

[edit] Systematics

On the species description, Lü et al. (2007) found Zhejiangosaurus to belong to the ankylosaurian family Nodosauridae.

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