Tienshanosaurus
Name:
Tienshanosaurus
(Tienshan lizard).
Phonetic: Tighn-shan-o-sore-us.
Named By: C. -C. Young - 1937.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Mamenchisauridae.
Species: T. chitaiensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Estimated about 12 meters long.
Known locations: China, Xinjian.
Time period: Late Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial remains
and an egg.
Tienshanosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in China during the late Jurassic. At twelve meters long Tienshanosaurus seems to have been fairly small for a sauropod dinosaur. In the past there has been some confusion concerning the validity of the genus, with the genus Euhelopus being considered to be a synonym by Ralph Molar in 1991, while Valérie Martin-Rolland named Tienshanosaurus as a species of Euhelopus in 1999. Despite this, at the time of writing both Euhelopus and Tienshanosaurus are both generally considered to be distinct.
Further reading
- A new dinosaurian from Sinkiang. - Palaeontologia Sinica, New
Series C, Whole Series No. 132 213: 1-29. - C. -C.
Young - 1937.
- Fossil Reptiles in Australia. - Ralph E. Molnar - In:
Editors P. Vickers-Rich, J. M. Monaghan, R. F. Baird and
T. H. Rich with the assistance of E. M. Thompson and C.
Williams, Vertebrate Palaeontology of Australasia. -1991.
- Les sauropodes chinois. - Revue Paléobiologie, Genève
18(1): 287-315. - Valerie Martin-Rolland - 1999.
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