| Peishansaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Ornithischia |
| Genus: | Peishansaurus |
| Species: | P. philemys |
| Binomial name | |
| Peishansaurus philemys Bohlin, 1953 |
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Peishansaurus (PAY-SHAHN-SAWR-us - meaning "north mountain lizard") was a genus of plant-eating dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (Campanian stage), roughly 97.5-65 million years ago.
Peishansaurus was named by Bohlin in 1953 from a fragmentary jaw with some teeth. The type species is P. philemys. Peishansaurus is a doubtful genus; it is either an ankylosaur or a pachycephalosaur, but further details are unknown.
Peishansaurus is named after Peishan North Mountain in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China.