Sanpasaurus
| Sanpasaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic | |
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| Dorsal vertebra | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Suborder: | Sauropodomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Sauropoda |
| Genus: | Sanpasaurus Young, 1944 |
| Binomial name | |
| Sanpasaurus yaoi Young, 1944 | |
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Sanpasaurus ("Sanpa lizard") is a poorly known sauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Sichuan, China. The type species, S. yaoi, was described by Chung Chien Young, in 1944. The type remains, IVPP V.156, consists of 20 vertebrae, scapulae, forelimbs, and some hindlimb bones.[1] Initially reported as an ornithopod ornithischian,[1] this specimen was unambiguously referred to Sauropoda[2][3] in 2016 by McPhee et al.[4]
References
- 1 2 C.-C. Young. 1944. On the reptilian remains from Weiyuan, Szechuan, China. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 24(3–4):187-205.
- ↑ A mention buried at the bottom of a long discussion of Asian sauropods, on the Dinosaur Mailing List.
- ↑ Upchurch, P. 1995. The evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B, 349:365-390.
- ↑ McPhee BW, Upchurch P, Mannion PD, Sullivan C, Butler RJ, Barrett PM. (2016) A revision of Sanpasaurus yaoi Young, 1944 from the Early Jurassic of China, and its relevance to the early evolution of Sauropoda (Dinosauria) PeerJ 4:e2578 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2578
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