Temporal range: Middle Jurassic (Bathonian), 167.5–164.5 Ma
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Skeletal reconstruction
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
†Ornithischia
Clade:
†Thyreophora
Clade:
†Stegosauria
Genus:
†Bashanosaurus Dai et al., 2022
Type species
†Bashanosaurus primitivus
Dai et al., 2022
Bashanosaurus (meaning "Bashan lizard") is an extinct genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation of Yunyang County, China. The genus contains a single species, Bashanosaurus primitivus, known from incomplete skeletons belonging to three individuals. It is one of the basalmost stegosaurs, as well as one of the oldest known stegosaurs, along with Adratiklit, Isaberrysaura, and Thyreosaurus.
described Bashanosaurus primitivus as a new genus and species of basal stegosaurian based on these fossil remains. The generic name, "'Bashanosaurus", combines...
geographical origins are unclear; the earliest unequivocal stegosaurian, Bashanosaurus primitivus, was found in the Bathonian Shaximiao Formation of China...
Thyreosaurus—one of the oldest known stegosaurs (being similar in age to Bashanosaurus, Isaberrysaura, and the informally-named "Ferganastegos"). Adratiklit...
among the earliest known stegosaurs along with Chungkingosaurus and Bashanosaurus. The genus was formalized by Zhao Xijin in 1986. The generic name refers...
Barapasaurus Barilium Barosaurus Barrosasaurus Barsboldia Baryonyx Bashanosaurus Bashunosaurus Basutodon – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian...
dams and reservoirs in China List of major power stations in Chongqing Bashanosaurus "Achievement". Chongqing Water Turbine Works Co. Archived from the original...
Genus Species Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images Bashanosaurus B. primitivus Lower Shaximiao Formation The earliest-diverging stegosaur currently...
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