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Fushanosaurus

Say it: foo-SHAHN-oh-SORE-us

Name means: “Fushan lizard, named after the Fushan Museum where its bones are kept”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksLate Jurassic

Fushanosaurus was a giant, long-necked plant eater that stomped around China during the Late Jurassic. It is known from a single huge thigh bone, but scientists think it was one of the longest dinosaurs ever!1

Lived

162 to 155 million years ago4

Late Jurassic

Fossils found in

Xinjiang Province, China, in the Shishugou Formation1

Food

Plants2

Length

up to 30 m1

estimated by comparing its femur to other giant sauropods

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

as long as 7 cars parked in a rowas long as 170 bananas end to end

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Fun facts

The only known bone is a complete right thigh bone (femur) that is 180 centimetres (5.9 feet) long.1

Scientists think it was about 30 metres (98 feet) long, which would make it one of the longest dinosaurs known.1

Its femur has a deep U-shaped groove between the joints at the knee, which is a special feature.3

The fourth trochanter, a bump on the thigh bone where muscles attach, is mound-shaped and sits above the middle of the bone.3

Fushanosaurus lived about 161 to 155 million years ago, during the Oxfordian age of the Late Jurassic.2

It was first thought to be a titanosauriform, but later studies suggest it might be a mamenchisaurid, a group known for very long necks.1

AI-made picture of Fushanosaurus — An AI-made picture of how Fushanosaurus might have looked, made by a computer from what scientists know. It is a guess: the real animal may have looked different, and nobody knows its true colours.

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Most asked questions about Fushanosaurus

?How big was Fushanosaurus?

Fushanosaurus was about 30 metres (98 feet) long, based on comparisons with other giant sauropods. Its only known bone, a thigh bone, is 180 centimetres (71 inches) long.1

?What did Fushanosaurus eat?

Fushanosaurus was a herbivore, meaning it ate plants. It lived on land and was likely a ground-dwelling dinosaur.4

?When did Fushanosaurus live?

Fushanosaurus lived during the Late Jurassic, about 161 to 155 million years ago. The fossil was found in the Shishugou Formation in China.1 4

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Myth buster

Myth: Some people think Fushanosaurus was a titanosauriform, a type of sauropod.

Truth: Scientists now think it might actually be a mamenchisaurid, because the features that suggested titanosauriform are also found in other sauropods.1

For dino experts

Scientific name: Fushanosaurus
Named by: Wang et al. 20194
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Titanosauriformes4
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Macronaria4
Age of the rocks: 162 to 155 million years (Oxfordian)4
Rock formations: Shishugou4
Countries: China4
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: The fossil was found in the Qitai area of the Junggar Basin in Xinjiang, China, and was named by Wang Xu-ri and colleagues in 2019.1 3
Still debated: Scientists are not sure whether Fushanosaurus was a titanosauriform or a mamenchisaurid, because only one bone has been found.1

Where the facts come from

Fushanosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
[dinosaur] Fushanosaurus, new sauropod from Late Jurassic of Junggar Basin, Xinjiang (free pdf) (dml.reptilis.net)
Fushanosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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