Shanxia
Name: Shanxia
(named after Shanxi Province).
Phonetic: Shan-ze-ah.
Named By: P. M. Barrett, H. You, P.
Upchurch & A. C. Burton - 1998.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Thyreophora, Ankylosauridae, Ankylosaurinae.
Species: S. tianzhenensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Comparison to other ankylosaurs suggest a size
of about 3.6 meters long.
Known locations: China, Shanxi Province -
Huiquanpu Formation.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and post
cranial skeleton remains.
Shanxia is a genus of ankylosaur that lived in China during the Late Cretaceous. However not much fossil material is available and there is speculation that Shanxia may actually just be further remains of the genus Tianzhenosaurus.
Further reading
- A new ankylosaurian dinosaur (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria)
from the Upper Cretaceous of Shanxi Province, People's Republic of
China. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):376-384.
- P. M. Barrett, H. You, P. Upchurch & A.
C.
Burton - 1998.
- The taxonomic status of Shanxia tianzhenensis (Ornithiscia,
Ankylosauridae); a response to Sullivan (1999). - Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology. 20: 216–217. - P. Upchurch & P. M. Barrett -
2000.
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