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Yingshanosaurus

Yingshanosaurus - Meaning: Mount Ying Lizard

Yingshanosaurus (ying-shan-oh-sore-us) is a genus of dinosaur that lived in the Oxfordian - Tithonian stages during the Upper Jurassic period, 159 - 142 million years ago. It was a stegosaur which lived in what is now China. It was similar to another stegosaur, Tuojiangosaurus, but slightly smaller.

Dinosaur Yingshanosaurus

Yingshanosaurus Characteristics

Yingshanosaurus measured 17 feet (5 metres) in length and weighed around 1.6 tons. Yingshanosaurus differed from its plate-backed relatives as it had a pair of huge wing-like spines on its shoulders, which were flat, like the 2 rows of small bony plates along its back. It had a spiked tail which it probably used for defence by swiping its attacker. Its head was long and its jaws contained many cheek teeth which enabled it to chew tough vegetation. It was a quadrupedal dinosaur that moved around slowly on 4 thick-set legs which may have had hoof-like toes.


Like all stegosaurs, Yingshanosaurus was an herbivore and ate prehistoric plant material.


Yingshanosaurus has yet to be fully described so classification is informal though it did turn up in a childrens dinosaur book, unfortunately written in Chinese. The only fossil specimen ever found has been misplaced.


Yingshanosaurus was named by Zhou in 1984 (nomen nudum) and Watanabe in 1992.

YINGSHANOSAURUS CLASSIFICATION:
Kingdom:
Animalia (animals)
Phylum:
Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain)
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Ornithischia
Suborder:
Thyreophora
Family:
Stegosauridae
Genus:
Yingshanosaurus
Species:
Y. jichuanensis, Zhou, 1984






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